when you're down and troubled
and you need some love and care
and nothing, no nothing is going right
close your eyes and think of me
and soon i will be there
to brighten up even your darkest night
you just call out my name
and you know wherever i am
i'll come running oh yeah
to see you again
winter, spring, summer or fall
all you've got to do is call
and i'll be there
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
you've got a friend
if the sky above you
should grow dark and full of clouds
and that old north wind should begin to blow
keep you head together
and call my name out loud
soon i'll be knocking upon your door
you just call out my name
and you know wherever i am
i'll come running oh yes i will now
to see you again
winter, spring, summer or fall
all you've got to do is call
and i'll be there
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
hey ain't it good to know that you've got a friend
when people can be so cold
oh they'll hurt you and desert you
well take your soul if you let them
oh yeah but don't you let them
you just call out my name
and you know wherever i am
i'll come running oh yes i will now
to see you again
don't you know about
winter, spring, summer or fall hey now
all you've got to do is call
and i'll be there
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
(yes i will)
you've got a friend
you've got a friend
ain't it good to know you've got a friend
(you've got a friend)
ain't it good to know you've got a friend
(you've got a friend)
you've got a friend
oh yeah yeah
you've got a friend
Wysteria
Did you change your face again
Those of us who loved you when
Can’t even find you
Wysteria
Did you lose another man
Did you make him understand
That he can’t touch you
Wysteria
Did he take you to the fair
Were the folks that you met there
The same that we met
Wysteria
Did he teach you how to dance
Did he bring you paper
The thin horizon of a plan is almost clear my friends and I have had a hard time bruising our brains hard up against change all the old dogs and the magician now I see we're in the boat in two by
twos only the heart that we have for a tool we could use and the very close quarters are hard to get used to love weighs the hull down with its weight but the wood is tired and the wood is old and we'll make it fine if the weather holds but if the weather holds then we'll have missed the point that's were i need to go no way construction of this tricky plan was built by other than a greater hand with a love that passes all our understanding watching closely over the journey yeah but what it takes to cross the great divide seems more than all the courage i can muster up inside but we get to have some answers when we reach the other side the prize is always worth the rocky ride but the wood is tired and the wood is old and we'll make it fine if the weather holds but if the weather holds then we'll have missed the point that's where i need to go sometimes i ask to sneak a closer look skip to the final chapter of the book and maybe steer us clear from some of the pain that it took to get us where we are this far but the question drowns in its futility and even i have got to laugh at me cause no one gets to miss the storm of what will be just holding on for the ride the wood is tired the wood is old and we'll make it fine if the weather holds but if the weather holds then we'll have missed the point that's where i need to go
So you think you can tell
Heaven from hell
Blue skys from grey
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail
A smile from a veil
Yeah do you think you can tell
Did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts
Hot ashes for trees
Hot air for a cool breeze
Cold comfort for change
Yeah and did you exchange
A walk on part in this war
For a leading role in a cage
How I wish, how I wish you were here
We’re just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
We’re running over the same old ground
What have we found
The same old fears
Well I wish you were here
I said I wish you were here yeah
Oh how I wish you were here
How I wish you were here
Hey and I wish you were here
Hey my rock star
How did you get so turned around
My rock star
How you did you get so turned around
Oh my rock star
(how did you get so turned around)
Did you get so turned around
Hey my my rock star
(how did you get so turned around
Inside out
Cut it all out now
Cut it all out now
Cut it all out now
Cut it all out now
Cut it out now
Cut it out now
Cut it out now
Cut it out now
Cut it all out now
Cut it all out now
Cut it all out
When we get back to winthrop
A few miles from the airport
On a plastic chair
On a deck where my friends live
I watch the taking off airplanes
I watch the ocean waves crashing
With all of this movement something’s got to give
Down at the high tide
Passed down through the family
The fishermen gather to complain about the catch
They talk about time
They talk about tides
The pull of the moon and the coffee deep night black
And I listen to them
And I listen to you
And for everyone there is something never coming back
But for all that we’ve been through
For all that we’ve promised
Your wayward direction seems insensible
Words fall off like breathless fish
All flopping and scattered
And hearts picked over deemed dispensible
Down at the high tide
We’re there for our last meal
The broken loaves are still enough for all
And we talk about time
And we talk about tides
Under the moon with the deep night coffee black
I hear the dim roar of the last flight out
And for someone there is someone never coming back
We talk about time
We talk about tides
Under the moon and the deep night coffee black
I hear the dim roar of the last flight out
And for someone there is someone never coming back
Out in the back by the grape stake fence
Is a place where nature makes so much sense
All the creatures livin’ in harmony
It’s a wild wild party in the loquat tree
Fuzzies and furries run walk or fly
Havin’ a feast beneath a clear blue sky
Animals comin’ from miles around
To bounce the branch and shake the loquat down
The squirrel and the sparrow and the mouse and the bee
All havin’ a party in the loquat tree
Eatin’ all the yellow fruit they can see
It’s a wild wild party in the loquat tree
Peckin’ at ’em pickin’ at ’em hidin’ ’em away
Savin’ ’em up for a rainy day
No matter how big no matter how small
There’s more than enough there’s plenty for all
The squirrel and the sparrow and the mouse and the bee
All havin’ a party in the loquat tree
Eatin’ all the yellow fruit they can see
It’s a wild wild party in the loquat tree
Chatter chirp squeak buzz
Chatter chirp squeak buzz
Chatter chirp squeak buzz
Chatter chirp squeak buzz
Every little loquat holds the seed
For a brand-new baby loquat tree
One o’ these seeds may find it’s way
To a place in the sun and then someday
The squirrel and the sparrow and the mouse and the bee
All havin’ a party in the loquat tree
Eatin’ all the yellow fruit they can see
It’s a wild wild party in the loquat tree
The squirrel and the sparrow and the mouse and the bee
All havin’ a party in the loquat tree
Eatin’ all the yellow fruit they can see
(eatin’ all the yellow fruit)
It’s a wild wild party in the loquat tree
(eatin’ all the yellow fruit)
The squirrel and the sparrow and the mouse and the bee
(eatin’ all the yellow fruit)
[havin’ a party]
All havin’ a party in the loquat tree
(eatin’ all the yellow fruit)
[in the loquat tree]
Eatin’ all the yellow fruit they can see
(eatin’ all the yellow fruit)
[havin’ a party]
It’s a wild wild party in the loquat tree
(eatin’ all the yellow fruit)
[in the loquat tree]
Chatter chirp squeak buzz
It’s a wild wild party in the loquat tree
Chatter chirp squeak buzz
It’s a wild wild party in the loquat tree
Childhood living
Is easy to do
The things you wanted
Well I bought them for you
And graceless lady
You know who I am
You know I can’t let you
Ah slide through my hands
Wild horses
Couldn’t drag me away
Wild, wild horses
Couldn’t drag me away
I watched you suffer
A dull aching pain
Now you’ve decided
To show me the same
No sweeping exits
Or offstage lines
Can make me feel bitter
Or treat you unkind
Wild horses
Couldn’t drag me away
Wild, wild horses
Couldn’t drag me away
I know I dreamed you
A sin and a lie
I have my freedom
But I don’t have much time
Faith has been broken
Tears must be cried
Come on let’s do some living
After we die
Wild horses
Couldn’t drag me away
Wild, wild horses
We’ll ride them someday
When you set a match to your heart
Fueling it with bitterness and doubt
That’s a blaze that once it starts
No amount of tears can put out
I know you’re scared
But no one’s spared
When you play with matches
You’ve got me walking through fire
You’ve got me walking through fire
Maybe you’ve been burned by lovers
Maybe you’ve been scarred by the pain
But baby I’m not like the others
Drawing moths to a flame
Spite is like a spark
Crackling in the dark
Consuming all it catches
And you’ve got me walking through fire
You’ve got me walking through fire to get to you
You’ve got me walking through fire
(walking through fire)
You’ve got me walking through fire
(walking through fire)
You can see the toll it’s taking
You can feel the faith it’s shaking
You can hear the heart it’s breaking now
Baby I’ve burned by the fever
I’ve been scorched by desire
But baby I’m not your deceiver
Or your eloquent liar
Your jealous heart is tearing us apart
And turning love to ashes
When you’ve got me walking through fire
You’ve got me walking through fire to get to you
You’ve got me walking through fire
You’ve got me walking through fire
You’ve got me walking through fire
(walking through fire)
You’ve got me walking through fire
(walking through fire)
As the flames shoot higher
You’ve got me walking through fire
(walking through fire)
Walking
Some will strut and some will fret see this an hour on the stage others will not but they'll sweat in their hopelessness in the rage we're all the same the men of anger and the women of the page they published your diary and that's how i got to know you key to the room of your own and a mind without end here's a young girl on a kind of a telephone line through time the voice at the other end comes like a long-lost friend so i know i'm alright my life will come my life will go still i feel it's alright I just got a letter to my soul when my whole life is on the tip of my tongue empty pages for the no longer young the apathy of time laughs in my face you say each life has its place the hatches were battened thunderclouds rolled and the critics stormed battles surrounded the white flag of your youth but if you need to know that you weathered the storm of cruel mortality a hundred years later i'm sitting here living proof so you know it's alright your life will come your life will go still you'll feel it's
When this old world starts a getting me down
And people are just too much for me to face
I climb way up to the top of the stairs
And all my cares just drift right into space
On the roof it’s peaceful as can be
And there the world below don’t bother me
Oh no
So when I come home feeling tired and beat
I go up where the air is fresh and sweet
And get far away from the hustling crowd
And all that rat race noise down in the street
On the roof that’s the only place I know
Where you just have to wish to make it so
Let’s go up on the roof
At night the stars they put on a show for free
Yes they do
And darling you can share it all with me
That’s what I said I keep on telling you
That right smack dab in the middle of town
I found a paradise that’s trouble free
And if this old world stars getting you down
There’s room enough for two up on the roof
At night the stars they put on a show for free yeah
And darling you can share it all with me
That’s what I said I keep on telling you
That right smack dab in the middle of town
I found a paradise that’s trouble free
If this old world stars getting you down
There’s room enough for two up on the roof
Up on the roof oh yeah
Up on the roof
Hidup ini bagaikan satu pusingan
Yang kita tak pasti mula dan akhirnya
Suka dan duka... kemungkinan yang ada
Tak siapa pun bisa mereka
Tetapi bagi diriku
Kepedihan selalu menimpa
Untuk keberapa kali
Harusku menempuh ombak badai
Duri... menyiksa diri
Untuk keberapa kali
Harusku meleraikan kemelut ini
Yang terus mencengkam hati
Kemunafikan, hipokrasi dan
Tragedi berlaku setiap hari
Tak siapa peduli... bagai mimpi ngeri
Luahan hati ku ini
Kau bukan kau... ku bukan dirimu
Bilakah masa bagiku
Kecapi bahagia yang selama ini ku impi
Namun tak akan aku mengalah
Pada situasi ini
Ku yakin masa ku pasti kan tiba
me and my baby
we drank some magic tea
we're crusing down the rural roads
aesthetics of poverty
i'm going down for the last time
i shifted to my level
can you receive what you give me
somebody should set you free
in the morning
when you wash your hair
i love those simple things that
make me know your there
come every sunday evening
it's leftovers from the weekenders
lost limbs to identify
frustration for the grieving
tuesday's children
we're falling short of time
let's hope we never fall short of love
memories linger like the fog on the sea
keeping me out of touch with my reality
nothing could ever mean as much to me
as tuesday's children
sometimes i feel like i'm falling short of myself
who i am
what i choose to be
most of the time tuesday's children
brings it all back and down to me
these people
these friends of ours
let's put them on another day
just leave me tuesdays children
i can face the world my own way
times like these make me wish
everyday was a tuesday
tuesday's children
you've been so good to me
tuesday's children
Baby, I've got the best intentions
I just can't do it
Baby, I've got the truest day
But I just can't win
Baby, I've got a good vibration
But I just can't play it
Baby, I spent my only fortune
On the wages of sin
But you, you gotta be extra forgiving
And you gotta be
Super strong
You gotta be
A true romantic
I want you to look the other way
Everything goes wrong
Baby, if you took all the good stuff and you put it all together
And you took all the bad stuff and you threw it all away
Would I still be the girl that suits your fancy
Would I still be the boy that rocks your world
I.....
If you get lonely
Trouble on the chaos
If you get bored
Since you walked away
Remember what I told you
When the night was darkest
You can leave me all you need to
Baby I'm here to stay
Baby, I'm gonna be extra forgiving
And I'm gonna be super strong
Cuz baby, I...
I'm a true romantic
I'm gonna look the other way
When everything goes wrong
I.....
Her life is a show
One act follows the other everywhere she goes
She takes the leading role
She never plays herself
Save for the time she’s on the stage
Color her black or white
Now either one reflects the teardrops
One extreme for the other
Nothing in between
Color her white for the princess she could be
Color her black for the troubled child she plays so well
Well she’s dancing through hell on a dream
And blue is soul of the one
Reaching for the man that she hasn’t got yet
And holding on to those hearts for lost causes
She could be so bright
But she’s reaching for us all
Color her blue for the loneliness she feels
She’s hiding her heart in the sky
And this is a thursday afternoon
It’s just another thursday afternoon
It’s just another thursday afternoon
Color me grey
I’m a little bit of everything today
And I’m not sure just where I’m going
Color me grey
Wishing I was something more of distinction
Color us all ’cause we’re just stars
Wishing our lives away
Into the distance
And out of existence
Color her black or white
Color her blue
Or color me grey
Color us all - we’re stars
Wishing our lives away
Now we’re stars
"The Weakness in Me" is a Joan Armatrading song that the girls used
to do back in 1986, though they resurrected it a few times in 1991.
A version of it appears on "Blue Food."
The Weakness in Me.
I'm not the sort of person who falls in and quickly out of love
But to you, I give my affection, right from the start.
I have a lover who loves me - how could I break such a heart?
Yet still you get my attention.
Why do you come here, when you know I've got troubles enough?
Why do you call me, when you know I can't answer the phone?
And make me lie when I don't want to,
And make someone else some kind of an unknowing fool?
Make me stay when I should not?
If you're so strong then resolve the weakness in me.
Why do you come here, and pretend to be just passing by?
I need to see you - I need to hold you - tightly.
Feeling guilty,
And I'm worried, and I'm waking from a tormented sleep
'Cause this old love, you know it has me bound,
But this new love cuts so deep.
If I choose now, I'm bound to lose out;
One of you is gonna have to fall...
I need you, baby.
Why do you come here, when you know I've got troubles enough?
Why do you call me, when you know I can't answer the phone?
And make me lie when I don't want to,
And make someone else some kind of an unknowing fool?
Make me stay when I should not?
If you're so strong then resolve the weakness in me.
Why do you come here, and pretend to be just passing by?
Tonight I’ve been sleepin on the mountain top
With a billion stars for my witness
In the morning I go down as the sun comes up
I take a drink from the bitter root river
Have you been lonely
Yes I’ve been lonely
Yes I’ve been lonely too
Said now have you been lonely
Yes I’ve been lonely
Yes I’ve been lonely too
Yeah well tonight I’ve been sleepin on the mountain top
With a billion stars for my witness
In the morning I go down as the sun comes up
I take a drink from the bitter root river
Sometimes been lonely
Sometimes been lonely
Sometimes been lonely too
Sometimes been lonely
Sometimes been lonely
Sometimes been lonely too
Tonight I’ve been sleepin on the mountain top
Yeah I got a million stars for my witness
In the morning I go down as the sun comes up
I take a drink from the bitter root river
Have we been workin
Yes we been workin
Yes we been workin too
I said have we been workin
Yes I been workin
Have we been workin too
Show a little inspiration
Show a little spark
Show the things that drew me to you
And stole my heart
And tell me something I don’t know
Instead of everything I do
And look at me as if I mean
Something to you
Our hearts are beating while we sleep
But while we’re wide awake
You know the world won’t stop
And actions speak louder
Listen to your heart
To what your heart might say
Everything we got
We got the hard way
Show a little passion baby
Show a little style
Show the knack for knowing when
And the gift for knowing how
And have a little trust in us
When fear obscures the path
You know we got this far darling
Not by luck
But by never turning back
Some will call on destiny
But I just call on faith
That the world won’t stop
And actions speak louder
Listen to your heart
To what your heart might say
Everything you got
You got the hard way
Caught up in our little lives
There’s not a lot left over
I see what’s missing in your eyes
You’re searching for that
Field of clover
So show a little inspiration
Show a little spark
Show the world a little light
When you show it your heart
We’ve got two lives
One we’re given
And the other one we make
And the world won’t stop
And actions speak louder
Listen to your heart
And your heart might say
Everything we got
We got the hard way
(everything we got we got the hard way)
Everything we got
We got the hard way
(because the world won’t stop)
Hang on baby
Time where have you left me
Here without a heart
Without an answer
I tried to open my eyes
I tried to see the song
All things considered
This much remains the same
Hit that wall again
The same old barrier
Time after time I’ve tried
To glimpse the other side
Oh and time surely made me see
I was taking your love so carelessly
Now we know
Though it doesn’t do much good anymore
I still feel the old familiar pain
It could be that love is blind
I was blind to all your reasoning
But at the start you were blind to me
Now I guess you could say we’re even
Isn’t that what we always wanted to be
Putting our souls on the line to win this game
I’m feeling the strain
I’ll always love you
Through all this distance
All these barriers
Trying to erase the pain
Erase the pain
Erase the pain
Sweet gypsy blowing through my mind
And through my heart so full and empty
Well these days seem strange somehow
A billion years isn’t what it appears to be
Now you tell me that you’re losing hold of time
You can’t seem to find your peace of mind
Well I’m so far away and I’m trying to see you through
I can’t help but feel I may be losing you
Should I let you go
For your own sake
Should I hold you close
For mine
Anyway I love you and I couldn’t be more sure
These tears cry out "please don’t let go"
Oh but their words
They keep haunting me
You can’t build your life around a dream
Well it’s too late
Now my world is you
There’s nothing they could say or do
Well I remember the first time that I fell
I swear I never thought I’d make it up again
I’ve been flying on the wings of your love
And I’m not getting down just to fall again
Don’t it seem like the road is oh so long
Well everybody’s moving out
And we’re staying on
In this absurdity
Now you don’t let go of me
I’m begging you
Now you don’t let go of me
Anyway I love you
Suraya
Seperti mana kau dan mentari
Pengemis ini meminta
Serangkaian cahaya
Hatimu Suraya
Suraya
Bentangkan sinaranmu disini
Lembah hatiku gelita
Rinduku tiada terhingga
Padamu suraya
Kadangkala
Perkataan
Hanya merunsingkan sahaja
Kelu tak berbahasa
Hanya lilin hidupke menyala
Dan mengapa
Berkali ku biarkannya
Datang dan pergi semula
Semakin lama...
Suraya
Suatu masa dulu ku bahagia
Walaupun seketika
Ku masih percaya
Padamu Suraya
They say that these are not the best of times
But they’re the only times I’ve ever known
And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own
Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lover’s eyes
And I can only stand apart and sympathize
For we are always what our situations hand us
It’s either sadness or euphoria
And so we’ll argue and we’ll compromise
And realize nothing’s ever changed
For all our mutual experience our separate conclusions are the same
Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity
Reason co-exists with our insanity
And when we choose between reality and madness
It’s either sadness or euphoria
How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies
Perhaps we don’t fulfill each other’s fantasies
And as we stand upon the ledges of our lives
With our respective similarities
It’s either sadness or euphoria
Oh oh oh
Oh oh
Oh oh
Oh oh oh
"Summertime" is a George Gershwin song. To be more accurate
(admittedly, only slightly more - I don't actually know what I'm
talking about - haven't y'all figured that out by now?), the music is
by George Gershwin, and the lyrics are by somebody who's last name is
"Heyward." That's what I'm told. And I may be TOTALLY wrong here,
but I THINK it MAY be from "Porgy and Bess." Anyway, the girls have
been doing this song about as long as any other song... Since at
least '85 or '86. Occasionally, back in the good ol' days, this used
to feature a killer flute solo by Ms. Annie "what a babe" Richardson,
or a harmonica solo by Mr. Sandy "all the best harmonica players
suck" Garfinkle. And if you were REALLY lucky, you'd get to see a
ten-minute jam with BOTH of 'em. And, if you were REALLY REALLY
lucky, then Ms. DeDe "this bass is taller than I am" Vogt would be
there to provide a stylin' bass line and to point out that despite
what the lyric says, cotton is high in the springtime. Ah... I DO
miss those days. Anyway, enough nostalgia...
Summertime.
Summertime, and the living is easy
The fish are jumping, the cotton is high
Your daddy's rich, your mama's good looking
I said, hush, little baby, don't you cry.
One of these mornings, you're bound to rise up singing
Then you'll spread your wings, and take to the sky
But until that morning, nothing's going to harm you, no
All the fur and fin will lose again
Cause our better is their worst reckonin'
And our fine-feathered friends will sing until they bleed
And how will we replace that symphony?
I've got the blackest boots, the whitest skin
Satisfy my sugar tongue again
Bring me love that buys us shoe-shine days
Guilded verses for your ethylene
And sing it to me free and clean
All the kids come home with foreign limbs
From hunting trips abroad they lose again
And we'll teach them how to talk
And whistle while they walk
And do the dirty work of battle hymns
I've got the blackest boots, the whitest skin
Satisfy my sugar tongue again
Sing me love that buys us shoe-shine days
Guilded verses for your ethylene
And sing it to me free and clean
Drinking tea with milk and Janjaweed
Pontificate on genocide or greed
With a spoonful of descent
For the orchestra of need
Is just enough to please this colony
I've got the blackest boots, the whitest skin
Satisfy my sugar tongue again
Bring me lullabies and morphine-dreams
Belladonna with her atropine
And sing it to me free and clean
Southern man better keep your head
Don’t forget what your good book said
Southern change gonna come as last
Now your crosses are burning fast
Southern man
I saw cotton
I saw black
Tall white fences
Little shacks
And southern man
When will you pay them back
I heard screaming
Bull whips cracking
How long how long
Southern man better keep your head
Don’t forget what your good book said
Southern change gonna come at last
Now your crosses are burning fast
Southern man
Southern man
Lilly belle your hair is golden brown
I’ve seen your black man coming round
I swear by God I’m gonna cut him down
I heard screaming
Bull whips cracking
How long how long
Southern man better keep your head
Don’t forget what your good book said
Southern change gonna come at last
Now your crosses are burning fast
Southern man
If you ever feel you’ll lose your dreams
Or your hope seems too far gone
I’ll bring the distance to your door
You couldn’t ask for any more
You were around when I needed a friend
You were the means you were the end
You’ll be the one I’ll turn to now
There’s gonna be some hard times coming down
Without you the world would be so crowded
Without you the moon would be so clouded
Without you I can be anyone
Anyone at all but myself
If ever your candle won’t blow out
Or your sorrow seems so interrupted
Well I’ll be the first to bring the darkness down
I’ll be the silence at your side
Without you the music couldn’t move me
The words would ring true
But the tune would feel so empty
Without you I can be anyone
Anyone at all but myself
But myself
Wish I was a slow moving sea
Moving away from the land so cautiously
I’d find me an island to surround
Just like you did as I was feeling down
As I was feeling down
Without you the world would be so crowded
Without you the moon would be so clouded
Without you I can be anyone
Anyone at all but myself
Oh but myself
Wish I was a slow moving sea
Wish I was a slow moving sea
Love is like a slow moving sea
Keeping in touch with eternity
Wish I was a slow, slow, slow, slow moving sea
Love is like a slow moving sea
Should have never crossed your path
Funny things you want the most
Should soon be taken back
Slap my own hands like a child
Stealing from the candy store
I think I’ve taken to your smile
And I hunger for your laugh
Do the craziest things like look around
When I know you’re nowhere near me
Break my back on a song
Though I know you’re not there to hear
Unanswered questions lying on the coffee table
From a song I haven’t finished since last summer
Cause I never could decide how much was gin
How much the sea
Or other incidentals clouding what was really me
Everything I am is bare feet and burning sand
Waiting for the calm cool hand of the sea
A madman of emotions waiting for the drug effect
Of the reason and the intellect to comfort me
Half the time I love you like you love the fall’s first breeze
Then you seem as distant as the skeletons of trees
Far away outside my window
Where inside I think of you
As if I thought hard enough I’d know which way to turn
And what to do
I’m quite sure I’ll be alright
We all live with some distraction
It’s just too bad
Mine will hang around all day and night
Like an uninvited guest
You can’t turn away try hard as you might
Lord knows I’ve tried
I might let it go and take a long long run
Quit my job and join the coastline baking in the sun
Then again I might just make big plans
And leave them on the table
Like the song I left unfinished
And the words I am unable
I will always be unable to express
Sekali lagi ku lalui jalan sepi
Yang cukup diri ini kenali
Ku sangka dia yang ku cari
Telah ku jumpa
Namun dia yang menghancurkan jiwa
Cukuplah sudah hatiku dipanah duka
Cukuplah sudah segala sengsara
Dan aku tak mahu lagi dibelenggu rindu
Kerana ia akhirnya membunuhku
Seperti yang ku jangka terjadi
Tewas sekali lagi
Menambahkan luka ynag sudah ada
Seperti yang ku jangka terjadi
Cinta datang dan pergi
Mungkin takdir ku hidup menyendiri
Harapan terakhir ku rupanya sama saja
Dengan yang terdahulu darinya
Biarkan aku hidup tanpa belaian cinta
Biar semua tahu ku kecewa
Seperti yang ku jangka terjadi
Tewas sekali lagi
Menambahkan luka ynag sudah ada
Seperti yang ku jangka terjadi
Cinta datang dan pergi
Mungkin takdir ku hidup menyendiri
Mungkinkah takdir hidup ini menyendiri
Bertemankan sepi
Yang pasti setiap malam
Ku imbas kembali
Kenangan indah menyentuh hati
Yang pasti itulah saja mampu ku miliki
Mungkin sepanjang hayat ku bermimpi
Berkat kesabaran kita
Menempuhi segala
Ku bersyukur kau masih setia
Kau insan teramat ku cinta
Namamu terpahat di dada
Untuk selamanya menyayangimu
Kerana ku milikku
Moga yang Esa
Tunaikan ikrar kita
Untuk sehidup semati
Kerna tak terdaya
Hidup tanpamu
Bak pungguk rindukan bulan
Dirikukan kehilangan kesepian
Bintang menjadi saksi janji
Sehidup semati
Ku berikan kasih kepadamu
Seluruh kehidupanku
Kerna itu saja buatku bahagia
Ku rela korbankan segala
Yang ku ada di dunia
Moga kau gembira selamanya
Kerana ku milikku
Moga yang Esa
Tunaikan ikrar kita
Untuk sehidup semati
Kerna tak terdaya
Hidup tanpamu
Bak pungguk rindukan bulan
Dirikukan kehilangan kesepian
Bintang menjadi saksi janji
Sehidup semati
Moga kita berpanjangan
(Moga kita berpanjangan)
Menikmati rasa cinta
Di antara dua insan... oh...
(Di antara dua insan)
Ku berdoa setiap masa
Agar kita lebih lama di sini
Bersama kau di sisi
'Kasih ku percaya
Kita berdua
Sehidup semati
Kini dan selama-lamanya
Sehidup semati'
"Scared to Say We're Friends" is an Amy Ray song from "Color Me Grey."
Scared to Say We're Friends
As I was wading through your distance
I heard you say "There's no way out."
And I was just thinking as my independence faded
There's no way in for me.
There's no way out and you know
There's no way in
We're on either side
Scared to say we're friends.
Now, I found Jesus, and you found yourself
Sometimes I still feel like I'm losing out
But we both found that it's just too hard to know for sure
Just what we can lean on when we're falling down.
You always did see the other side of things
And sometimes
I'm bound to wonder
Do you see through me?
With all the voids I tried to fill
And all the emptiness I tried to tell you about
There was never time enough
There are never words enough
And I'll never have the guts enough
But I'll tell you I've been needing you so bad.
There's no way out and you know
There's no way in for me now
And we're on either side
And we're crying for a friend.
There's no way out and you said
There's no way in for me now
And we're on either side
Mister pull up a chair
I got time for tears
Tell me all the stories that you never did
Of the salty south
The Seminoles held out
While Geronimo died in a lonely jail
A thousand tides, and
A thousand waves
Takin' it all away
It'll come back in
We'll be gone by then
And it's a miracle we ever learned to live
Drain that land
For a better plan
Sugarcane and the civil man
But now the ringin' dead them pines
Planted in that time
We gonna keep on killin' till they get it right
A thousand tides, and
A thousand waves
Takin' it all away
It'll come back in
We'll be gone by then, oh
And it's a miracle we ever learned to live
I remember the wind
As it was settlin'
And every sun goin' down was a picture then
But we look back at 'em framed
They all look the same
There's no sense of time, no sense of pain
A thousand tides, and
A thousand waves
Takin' it all away
And it'll come back in
We'll be gone by then, oh
And it's a miracle we ever learned to give
I took off last night with my coat and my intention
To make connections with the eyes that left me blind
Left my mouth for the strength of that white, white line.
I left one more time I could have heard 'I love you'
One more time I could have heard 'I care'
One more time when I needed that emotion
One more time I wasn't even there.
Through the darkness and the distance lie champagne and smoky smiles
Bounded by the sorrow, having lost love to the mile
I feel you - you're not a stranger to this white, white line.
I watched your ashes burn so slowly - illusions to my view
But I laugh and say it's Highway 75 that draws me here
It's not me, and it's not you.
I left one more time I should have said 'I love you'
One more time I should have told you 'I care'
When we sit here in silence
And we miss the ones we love that can't be here
It's a love we leave behind.
(solo)
I tried to lose this restless spirit in a mission of regrets
But I can't survive without this war
And your eyes reflect the vision that I can't forget.
I find balance on a darkened highway
I find truth by the side of the road
And someone else's tune to lift me high above the line
That leaves me running from the cold...
Running from the cold...
Running from the cold
there's colors on the street
red white and blue
people shuffling their feet
people sleeping in their shoes
there's a warning sign on the road ahead
there's a lot of people saying we'd be better off dead
don't feel like saton but i am to them
so i try to forget it any way i can
keep on rockin' in the free world
keep on rockin' in the free world
keep on rockin' in the free world
keep on rockin' in the free world
i see a woman in the night
with a baby in her hands
under an old street light
next to a garbage can
and she puts the kid away
cause she wants to get a hit
she hates her life
and what she's done to it
one more kid that will never go to school
never get to fall in love never get to be cool
keep on rockin' in the free world
keep on rockin' in the free world
keep on rockin' in the free world
keep on rockin' in the free world
we got a thousand points of light
for the homeless man
a kinder gentler machine gun hand
we got department stores and toliet paper
styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer
the man in power says to keep our hope alive
fuel to burn roads to drive
keep on rockin' in the free world
keep on rockin' in the free world
keep on rockin' in the free world
keep on rockin' in the free world
Oh people
Look around you
The signs are everywhere
You’ve left it for somebody other than you
To be the one to care
You’re lost inside your houses
And there’s no time to find you now
Well your walls are turning
Your towers are burning
Gonna leave you here
And try to get down to the sea somehow
The road is filled with homeless souls
Every woman child and man
Who have no idea where they will go
But they’ll help you if they can
But everyone must have some thought
That’s gonna pull them through somehow
While the fires are raging hotter and hotter
The sisters of the sun are gonna
Rock me on the water now
Rock me on the water
Sister will you soothe my fevered brow
Rock me on the water
I’ll get down the sea somehow
Oh people
Look among you
It’s there your hope must lie
There’s a seabird above you
Gliding in one place
Like jesus in the sky
We all must do the best we can
And then hang on the that gospel plow
When my life is over
Gonna stand before the father
And the sisters of the sun are gonna
Rock me on the water now
Rock me on the water
Sister will you soothe my fevered brow
Rock me on the water
Maybe I’ll remember
Maybe I’ll remember how
Rock me on the water
I said the wind is with me now
So rock me on the water
I’ll get down the sea somehow
Rock me on the water
Sister will you soothe my fevered brow
Rock me on the water
I’ll get down the sea somehow
It didn't happen for you.
No one wants to hear the truth
Coming from three political queers
Plucking the punk rock groove.
So you break up the band
And leave us all in toe
And now we gotta figure out where to go.
I caught it at a rave
(did it give you a vaccination?)
I saw it on my tv
(did it lighten up your load?)
And every fucking dj
(did you feel affiliated?)
Was telling me i'm free
(like you really had a home?)
I'm free to be a loser
(were the ticket prices too high?)
I'm free to be a trend
(were the lights too bright?)
I'm free to be a backlash over and over
And over again
(was it all a bunch of hype?)
You said i'm losing inspiration one band at a time
Cos i gotta know there's someone somewhere out there
Singing for our side.
I come up - share the mortar and the glue.
What we build together - we share that too.
And the wind may come, and the rain may fall,
But we stand together or we don't stand at all.
And i said, where are you going to now
Now that the going is gone?
Where are you going to now?
And it's a race to your survival
Swimming up the stream,
Crossing over one dam after another
Until we get to rock and roll heaven's gate.
I caught it at a rave
(did it give you a vaccination?)
I saw it on the tv
(did it lighten up your load?)
And every fucking dj
(did you feel affiliated?)
Was telling me i'm free
(like you really had a home?)
I'm free to be a loser (were the ticket prices too high?)
I'm free to be a trend (were the lights too bright?)
I'm free to be a backlash over and over
Until i get to rock and roll heaven's gate.
it's coming on christmas
they're cutting down trees
putting up reindeer
and singing songs of joy and peace
i wish i had a river
i could skate away on
but it don't snow here
it stays pretty green
gonna make a lot of money
then i'm gonna quit this crazy scene
and i wish i had a river
i could skate away on
i wish i had a river so wide
i would teach my feet to fly
i wish i had a river
i could skate away on
'cause i made my baby cry
you tried hard to help me
and you put me at ease
then loved me so naughty
made me weak in my knees
and wish i had a river
that i could skate away on
i'm so hard to handle
i'm selfish and i'm sad
now i lost the best baby
that i ever had
and i wish i had a river
that i could skate away on
i wish i had a river so wide
i could teach my feet to fly
i wish i had a river
that i could skate away on
cause i made my baby say goodbye
it's coming on christmas
they're cutting down trees
putting up reindeer
and singing songs of joy and peace
but i wish i had a river
i could skate away on
god i wish i had a river so wide
i'd teach my feet to fly
i wish i had a river
i could skate away on
i made my baby say goodbye
Kau pergi dengan tiba-tiba
Membuat hatiku pasrah
Kau pergi walau sementara
Namun ku kan tetap bersamamu
Bila berada di angkasa
Awan mengirimkan kata cinta
Angin menghembus rindu
Ku ingin bersamamu
Rindu ini semakin terasa
Bila rindu ini kian membara
Merinduimu... Setiap waktu
Ku ingin bersama
Hari silih berganti
Ku mengira waktu untuk bersamamu
Tak sabar menati dirimu
Pulang ke dakapnku
Bila berada di angkasa
Awan mengirimkan kata cinta
Angin menghembus rindu
Ku ingin bersamamu
Pabila rasa...
Bila berjauhan...
Tidakkah kau tahu
Ku ingin bersamamu kasih...
Bila berada di angkasa
Awan mengirimkan kata cinta
Angin menghembus rindu
Ku ingin bersamamu
Pabila rasa...
Old pirates yes they rob i
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took i
From the bottomless pit
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the almighty
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly
Won’t you help to sing
These songs of freedom
Cause all I ever had
Redemption songs
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
Cause none of them are gonna stop the time
How long must they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look
Some say it’s just a part of it
We’ve got to fulfill the book
Won’t you help to sing
These songs of freedom
Cause all I ever had
Redemption songs
Redemption songs
Redemption songs
Words and Music: Amy Ray
Note: this song was reincarnated as Go
I am a problem child
I've been wild all my days
All my anger and my rage
My senses said that would lead me astray
I said, go, go, go
Raise your hands, raise your hands high
I don't take a seat, I don't stand aside
This time I don't assume anything
Five generations running fast
These things will not pass
This debtor's blood runs in my veins
I can't change anything
I said, no, no, no
Raise your hands, raise your hands high
Don't take a seat, don't stand aside
This time I don't assume anything
I said this time
Don't assume anything
Just go, go, go
So you learned to cry
But you don't know why
So you learned to laugh
But what are we laughing at
I am a problem child
I've been wild all my days
All my anger and my rage
My senses said it would lead me astray
I said, go, go, go
I said, no, no, no
I saw a vision
Little boy
You covered up your own insights
But I may have held your hand
Or seen the ghost you tried to fight
Oh a vision
Little boy
You strayed down to find the clowns
Oh and when I wrote these lines for you
Not, not one of them was found
Blame the circus and the clowns
Before you blame yourself
Cause when your greatest needs go unforgiven
And your gifts go unreceived
Little boy
Man of need
Who could know that the road would fall
Not me not one of us
That surrounds your golden walls
So now blame the circus and the clowns
Before you blame yourself
Cause all your greatest needs go unforgiven
All your gifts go unreceived
Who could know of the fall
Who could slow the speed
Who could hold your hand
We all laughed and thought you were so free
Vision boy
Man of need
Oh do the monkeys get you down
Oh they promise you the dance of life
Complete with laughters crown
Little boy
Man of need
Did you find the freak show and a crowd
I said cut the canvas on the tent
Oh we were all innocent
Blame the circus and the clowns
Before you blame yourself
When your greatest needs go unforgiven
And your gifts go unreceived
Oh your greatest needs go unforgiven
And your gifts they go unreceived
Little boy
Man of need
"Passin' Time" is an Amy Ray song from "Color Me Grey."
Passin' Time.
She was grasping for a way to tell us all
The hurt she felt inside
"We're all too happy," she says, "Let's have a war,"
And the knife digs deeper in.
It's just some words to pass the time
Some words to pass the time.
Now when the silence gets to be too much
I can feel the souls searching
Where do I go when I've lost my cause?
We all have stories
Even the good ones let me down
They're all just words to pass the time.
I used to be so sincere, and maybe I still am
But all this small talk I've been reeling off
Is slowly getting out of hand.
I mix real feelings with the ones I wish I had
And I catch the most important one in between them all
Sometimes it seems like they're all just words to pass the time.
And then we've lost our time
And we've wasted our words
And all restraint is gone
Sometimes it's too unreal to believe
Just don't give it all away - get a grip
Sometimes they're all just words to pass the time.
I said I'm too high, I'm too high
And I'm scared of falling down
I've just been grasping for words to make you want to stay
To make it all worthwhile
'Cause I don't want to spend the rest of my life
Just passing time
No, I don't want to spend the rest of my life here
Now we can say
That nothings lost
And only change
Brings round the prophecy
Well now it's melting
The solid frost
Was once a veil on greener landscapes
We would see
Beneath my surface
The waters heating
The steam comes up and out the tears
You see me shine
For every strange and bitter moment
There was never a better time
For every pleasure
Exacts its pain
How you hurt me
How you were good to me
Beneath my window
A mournful train
That makes me smile
At my bad poetry
But beneath my surface
A song is rising
And it may be simple
Well it hides its true intent
We may be looking for our deliverence
But it has already been sent
It's in the nightfall
When the light falls
And what you've seen
Isn't there anymore
It's in our blind trust
Love will find us
Just like it has before
They're sending soldiers
To distant places
X's and O's
On someones drawing board
Like green and plastic
But with human faces
And they want to tell you
It's a merciful sword
But with all the blood
Newly dried in the desert
Can we not fertilize the land with something else
There is no nation
By god exempted
Lay down your weapons
And love your neighbor as yourself
It's in the nightfall
When the light falls
And what you've seen
Isn't there anymore
It's through our blind trust
Love will find us
Just like it has before
"No Way to Treat a Friend" is an Amy Ray song, probably written
around 1985 or earlier, even. A live version of it appears on the
"Blue Food" cassette, and it has been performed fairly regularly
since then. The lyrics I'm transcribing are from no particular
version, as the song changed a bit over the years. Instead, I'm kind
of compiling it from seven different versions from 1985/6 to 1991.
So when I choose one phrase over another, such as "When I walked you
to the door" instead of "When I walked through the door," well, it's
totally a judgement call on my part. So sue me.
No Way to Treat a Friend
When I walked you to the door, I was feeling mighty fine
I was thinking "Hey, I've got love to ease my mind."
Then I got to the car, and I was staring at your scars
Thinking "Hey, this ain't no way to spend my time."
I want a true love affair, not this touch-and-go in the air
You know I don't know if I'm coming or I'm down
I don't want a love touch and go, I want a feeling I only know
Or else you can't get me out of this town.
When I saw you smile, it was just one look into your eyes
And I was thinking "Hey, you're in love again."
Then I heard you laugh, honey, you were laughing at the past
I was thinking "This ain't no way to treat a friend."
You were laughing at the past, you were smiling through your glass
Watching cars drive away in your mind
You were hoping I would leave, honey, I was dreaming I could stay
This ain't no way to spend my time.
(At this point, recent versions have a guitar solo, while early
versions include a bridge with the following lyrics:
This ain't no way to treat a friend
This ain't no way to see me
I'm looking for the end
This ain't no way to treat a friend.)
I want words, I want touch, maybe that's a bit too much
For someone so far removed from what we used to claim
If you be cruel, I'll still be kind, I've got it in my mind
I'm in love with you, I ain't gonna play your game.
If you want my advice, don't say it's wrong if it feels right
Don't push me down just to see me crawl
I'll be crawling on your floor, I'll be reaching for the door
I'll be crawling right out of your eyes
Honey, I'll be walking right out of your eyes
As I was wading through your distance
I heard you say "there’s no way out"
And I was just thinking as my independence faded
Well there’s no way in for me
There’s no way out and you know
There’s no way in
We’re on either side
Scared to say we’re friends
Now I found jesus and you found yourself
Sometimes I still feel like I’m losing out
But we both found that it’s just too hard to know for sure
Just what we can lean on when we’re falling down
You always did see
The other side of things and sometimes
I’m bound to wonder
Do you see through me
With all the voids I tried to fill
And all the emptiness I tried to tell you about
There was never time enough
There are never words enough
And I’ll never have the guts enough
But I’ll tell you I’ve been needing you so bad
There’s no way out and you know
There’s no way in for me now
And we’re on either side
And we’re crying for a friend
There’s no way out and you said
There’s no way in for me now
And we’re on either side
And we’re scared to say we’re friends
and now i know
spanish harlem aren't just
pretty words to say
i thought i knew
but now i know
that rose trees never grow
in new york city
until you've seen
this trash can dream come true
stand at the edge
have people run you through
i thank the lord
there's people out there like you
i thank the lord
there's people out there like you
while mona lisas and mad hatters
sons of bankers sons of lawyers
turn around and say
good morning to the night
for unless they see the sky
but the can't and that is why
they know not if it's
dark outside or light
this broadway's got
got a lot of songs to sing and
if i knew the tunes
i might join in
i'll go my way alone
grow my own
my own seed shall be sown
in new york city
subway's no way
for this good man to go down
rich man can ride
and the hobo he can drown
i thank the lord
for the people i have found
i thank the lord
for the people i have found
while mona lisas and mad hatters
sons of bankers sons of lawyers
turn around and say
good morning to the night
for unless they see the sky
but the can't and that is why
they know not if it's
dark outside or light
and now i know
spanish harlem aren't just
pretty words to say
i thought i knew
but now i know
that rose trees never grow
in new york city
subway's no way
for this good man to go down
rich man can ride
and the hobo he can drown
i thank the lord
for the people i have found
i thank the lord
for the people i have found
while mona lisas and mad hatters
sons of bankers sons of lawyers
turn around and say
good morning to the night
for unless they see the sky
but the can't and that is why
they know not if it's
dark outside or light
they know not if it's
dark outside or light
The boy he thinks I’m damaged goods
I know he does and I guess he should
I dress like him and I take him down
He gets embarrassed when his friends come around
I can get the girl
But the boys just laugh
I can get the girls
But the boys just laugh
So this is a measure of me
Even though it shouldn’t be
The lion lays down with the lamb
But I can’t do it so I ain’t worth a damn
I can get the girls
But the boys just laugh
I can get the girls
But the boys just laugh at me
Come on now graceful
I want you to be
Come on now social
I said I want you to be
Come on now special
I I want you to be
I want you to be
I the virgin in the woods
Tell me now if they are good
Is it the boys who needed me
I am you and you set it free
I get the girls
But the boys just laugh
I get the girl
But the boys he laughs at me
I said this is the measure of me
And even though it shouldn’t be
The lion lays down with the lamb
Yeah but I can’t do it and I ain’t worth a damn
Suatu masa dahulu
Akulah lelaki di dalam hidup mu
Sumpah janji kau berikan
Hingga ku binakan seribu harapan
Tapi itu hanya tinggal kenangan
Mengapa aku sanggup dikau permainkan
Masih dapat ku merasakan kehadiranmu
Masih wajah mu bermain-main di mindaku
Masih ada lagi jernih haruman kasih mu
Tapi kini kau tiada
Namun diri ini masih lagi menyinta
Jauh di sudut hati ini
Berdoa agar kau kan kembali
Ku tak ingin lagi sendiri
Harungi satu kehidupan yang sungguh sepi
Oh kasih tidakkah kau mengerti hati ini
Yang menyintai dirimu sepenuh hati
Namun mengapa masih lagi kau tak peduli
Senantiasa ku berdoa
Agar kau kembali
Menyintaiku seperti suatu waktu
Kau dan aku bahagia
Dimana kau kasih
Suatu yang tak diduga
Sesekali mengetuk pintu hati
Menguji kita
Cinta yang kita bina
Tiba dengan sekelip mata runtuh rebah
Jiwa ku resah
Daku masih tertanya
Mana silapnya
Kau menghilang tanpa berita
Masih...
Daku menyintaimu
Ku masih bersedih
Rindu dalam pedih
Masih...
Masih mengarapkanmu
Kembali padaku
Ku masih menagih kasih mu
Oh ! Masih
Suatu yang melukakan
Yang menghiris hati
Kini terjadi menikam jiwa
Tak mengerti tak ku fahami
Dilema yang melanda
Menimpa cinta kita
Hiba di dada
Ku masih tertanya-tanya
Ku menderita
Kau menghilang
Entah ke mana
Masih...
Daku menyintaimu
Ku masih bersedih
Rindu dalam pedih
Masih...
Masih mengharapkan mu
Kembali kepada ku
Ku menagih kasihmu
Oh ! Masih
eddie said the beat was wrong
tom didn't like the tune
the boy with a beard in the corner
laughed in the middle of a song
he didn't stay very long
eddie said the lights were low
tom said the treble was high
the boy with a beard in the corner
laughed in the middle of a sigh
don't think we ever even caught his eye
sometimes i used to find
i'd be singing to you
as if you were sitting
at the table by the door
eddie said a friend of his
is making it big in l.a.
ah well everybody down at malachy's
says i'm gonna make it someday
sometimes i used to write
a song for you
as if you were sitting
at the table by the door
sometimes i used to find
i'd be singing to you
as if you were sitting
at the table by the door
love the one you're with
when you're down and confused
and you don't remember who you're talking to
consentration gonna slip away
cause your baby is so far away
honey there's a rose in the fisted glove
and the eagle flies with the dove
if you can't be with the one you love
honey love the one you're with
love the one you're with
love the one you're with
don't be angry and don't be sad
don't sit crying over bad times you've had
cause there's a girl sitting next to you
and she's just waiting for something to do
honey there's a rose in the fisted glove
and the eagle flies with the dove
if you can't be with the one you love
honey love the one you're with
love the one you're with
love the one you're with
do do do do do do do do
do do do do do do do do
do do do do do do do do
do do do
do do do
turn your heartache right into joy
there's a girl honey you're a boy
well you get it together gonna make it nice
you ain't gonna need any more advice
honey there's a rose in the fisted glove
and the eagle flies with the dove
if you can't be with the one you love
honey love the one you're with
love the one you're with
love the one you're with
do do do do do do do do
do do do do do do do do
do do do do do do do do
do do do
do do do
I opened my hands up to see what I've got.
My days slip like coins into a slot.
They are gone, the shadows lie long.
I've been banking on a broken machine.
Left unattended, like most of my dreams.
Rusted components of an unmarked song
We've been staring down a brilliant dream
The sun burns our eyes.
We've been fighting for the love of our lives
All around us things come apart.
Broken pieces. broken hearts,
Fix me, oil me, match me with the next best thing.
Person to person, nation to nation
Heels dug in no communication.
While the time speaks of weathering
We've been wanting to be helped by binding ties
We've been fighting for the love of our lives
And when it breaks down, I beg you don't go.
A sinking ship, I'm ready to blow.
I try to outthink you with an army of words,
I strategize.
I am fighting for the love of my life
Fire and water, oxygen
Scotch and soda, or any combination
Starts the reaction.
Is there no mastermind of modern day
Who can blueprint a plan to make love stay
steady and weatherproof usher in a new revolution?
After trying more, the hopeful ones still try.
How can we help it
When we're fighting for the love of our live?
(Trying more) The Hopeful ones still try.
How can we help it
When we're fighting for the love of our lives?
"Love By You" is a Joan Armatrading song (I don't remeber what album
it's from) that Emily used to do occasionally, around spring 1988.
Love By You.
Anybody looking on, they can see you're not so good
People in the know, they can see I miss you
In the night with no one to hear me, I'm afraid and I cry
Seasons change, but there's nothing changes my mind
I've been loving you too long, and I can't seem to stop
You are my lifeline, you make me happy
I said that, had to say it, baby
Who on earth ever held me like you?
I'd like to see someone try!
Love by you, and no other loving will do.
In your time, baby, come back to me please
Don't leave this girl lost in space
long ago a young man sits
and plays his waiting game
but things are not the same it seems
as in such tender dreams
slowly passing sailing ships
on sunday afternoon
like the people on the moon i've seen
are things not meant to be
where do those golden rainbows end
(where do the rainbows end)
why is this song so sad
(why is this song so sad)
dreaming the dreams i dream my friend
(dreaming the dreams i dream)
loving the love i love
to love is just a word i've heard
when things are being said
stories my poor head has told me
can not stand the cold
and in between what might have been
and what has come to pass
are misbegotten guests alas
and bits of broken glass
where do your golden rainbows end
(where do the rainbows end)
why is the song i sing so sad
(why is this song so sad)
dreaming the dreams i dream my friend
(dreaming the dreams i dream)
loving the love i love
to love to love to love
where do your golden rainbows end
(where do the rainbows end)
why is the song i sing so sad
(why is this song so sad)
dreaming the dreams i dream my friend
(dreaming the dreams i dream)
loving the love i love
to love to love to love
whoa no no no no no
Hey little darling
There’s something that you should know
This things gonna hound every soul
This thing they won’t let us go
Gonna break us down to nothing
Gonna eat us from the inside out
Hey little darling
I don’t want you to feeling the fallout
Ah when the cancer finally took him
I was watching the trucks pull in
Me and your daddy we had a job
Under the ground mining uranium
Some things your daddy leaves you
Some things he don’t
Some things are gonna be here anyhow
And some things just won’t
One thing I want you to understand
Is you ain’t gotta be no mining man
I curse the day that I went down
And I pulled that shit out of the ground
Now we were living over in nevada
That’s where your people come from
Your grandma would take me and your daddy
On down to the gunnery range
We sit and watch the bombs blow
Until the sun goes down
All those colors running like the painted desert
And you get to see it now
Them government boys have something so damn secret
They had to hide it in the desert sand
Out there the skies so big
And there ain’t no mistaking it
Whose got the winning hand
Ah ah ah ah
I said I’ve been all the way to alaska
To a town they call point of hope
Where they took some of what we got down here
Just to see how it would grow
I hear the lichen bought it
And now it’s running through the caribou
I said soon little darling
You’ll get to feel it too
Get to feel it too
Oh I said soon little darling
You’ll get to feel it to
Hmm hmm hmm yeah
Oh yeah hmm hmm
Hmm hmm hmm
Oh yeah hmm hmm
Hmm hmm hmm
Couple in the next room’s bound to win a prize
Cause they’ve been going at it all night long
And I’m trying to get some sleep
But these motel walls are cheap
And lincoln duncan is my name
And here’s my song
And here’s my song
My father was a fisherman my mom a fisherman’s friend
And I was born in the boredom and the chowder
When I reached my prime
I left my home in the maritimes
And i, I headed down the turnpike
For new england
Sweet new england
Had holes in my confidence
And holes in the knees of my jeans
And I was left without a penny in my pocket
And ew-whee I was desitute as a girl could be
And I wished I wore a ring so I could hock it
I’d surely hock it
I met a young girl in the parking lot
She was preaching to the crowd
By singing sacred songs and reading from the bible
Well I told her I was lost
And she told me all about the penticost
And I seen that girl as a road to my survival
Later on the very same night
She crept to my tent with a flashlight
And these long years of innocence ended
Took me to the woods
I said her comes something that feels so good
And just like a dog I was befriended
I was befriended
I said what a night
What a garden of delight
Even now that sweet memory lingers
I was lying under the stars just playing my guitar
But I was thanking the lord for my fingers
For my fingers
I know I know I know I know
I know I know
Cold black coffee, incessant stream of cars
Cigarette ash lies sprinkled like a fist full of grey stars
Yesterday it rained silver rainbows on the ground
Today the rain's just water it won't stop from falling down
I grow weary waiting for my muse
But in between the time she comes
I still have to tie my shoes
And get on with my day
There are mornings when I'm with Icarus
And there are days I have to take the bus
Life's so rich
Life's so empty
Secret rendezvous long distance from a phone booth
Like two players in a mystery straight out of our youth
Well I'm finding that dramatics have lost their old appeal
I play the part of stoic lover but I'm not sure how I feel
I get discouraged waiting for the world
To understand this love affair
To understand the girl
There are moments when Amelia's right beside me
Next thing I know I taste the salt of the sea
Life's so rich
Life's so empty
Cold black coffee, incessant stream of cars
Cigarette ash lies sprinkled like a fist full of grey stars
Yesterday it rained silver rainbows on the ground
Today the rain's just water it won't stop from falling down
I grow weary, I'm waiting for the world
To understand this love affair
To understand the girl
There are moments when Amelia's right beside me
Next thing I know I taste the salt of the sea
Life's so rich
Life's so empty
Life's so strange
Oh oh
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is a Bob Dylan song from 1973. The girls
have been doing it now and then since at least 1988. There's
something about the girls' version that kinda confuses me... See,
the official Dylan lyric sheet has two verses:
Mama, take this badge off of me
I can't use it anymore
It's getting dark, too dark for me to see
I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door...
Mama, put my guns in the ground
I can't shoot them anymore
That long black cloud is comin' down
I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door...
Though I know that Dylan often sings a third verse live:
Mama, wipe the blood from my face
I can't see through it anymore
It's a feeling that I just can't trace
I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door...
Though in every IG version I have, Amy sings the following third
verse:
Mama, wipe this blood from my face
I can't see through the walls
Six white horses coming to carry me away
I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door...
So, I don't know whether Amy re-wrote Dylan's third verse, or whether
it's from some Dylan version I don't know. What I'm trying to say is
that I don't know whether to attribute the "six white horses" line to
Dylan or to Amy.
To further complicate matters, I've got one version that features a
FOURTH verse, sung by Michelle Malone. This verse breaks both the
meter and the rhyme scheme (ABBB in favor of ABAB), so I'm willing to
bet that it's just Ms. Malone improvising...
Mama, take these chains off of me
'Cause I don't want them anymore
They're getting too damn heavy, I'm crawling across the floor
I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door...
Oh - BTW - the first person who asks me about the "Guns-n-Roses"
version will feel my wrath...
-Vic.
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Membibitkan perasaan cinta
Sungguh tak ku sangka
Dalam diam kau
Turut merasakannya
Ku cuba sedaya upaya untuk
Menyusun kata-kata
Berjumpa kali kedua
Tapi diri ini kaku tak bersuara
Bagaimana caranya
Kenali dirimu satu pengalaman baru
Yang belum lagi ku lalui
Tak mungkin ada lain
Wanita dalam hidupku
Yang berjaya menambat hatiku
Ku tekadkan hatiku
Meluahkan persaan di dalam jiwa ku
Kau hanya membisu
Buat ku gelisah
Menunggukan jawapanmu
Kau nyatakan yang
Kau menyintai diriku
Oh sungguh ku gembira
Apabila dapat berita
Kini kau telah pun menjadi milikku
She was grasping for a way to tell us all
The hurt she felt inside
We’re all too happy she says
"let’s have a war"
And the night digs deeper in
They’re just some words to pass the time
Some words to pass the time
Now when the silence gets to be too much
I can feel the soul searching
Where do I go when I’ve lost my cause
We are the stories
Even the good ones let me down
There all just words to pass the time
I used to be so sincere
And maybe I still am
And all this small talk I’ve been reeling off
Is slowly getting out of hand
I mix real feelings
With the ones I wish I had
And I catch the most important ones
In between them all
Sometimes it seems like they’re all just words
To pass the time
And then we’ve lost our time
And we’ve wasted out words
And all the strain is gone
Sometimes it’s too unreal to believe
Just don’t give it all away
Get a grip
Causes sometimes there are just words to pass the time
I said I’m too high I’m too high
And I’m scared of falling down
I’ve just been grasping for words
To make you want to stay
To make it worthwhile
I don’t want spend the rest of my life
Just passing time
I don’t want to spend the rest of my life here
Just passing time
junkie's lament
rikki's been kicking the gong
lickety split didn't take too long
a junkies sick a monkeys strong
that's what's wrong
well i guess he's been messing around down town
so sad to see the man losing ground
he's winding down behind closed doors
on all fours
mama don't you call him my name
he can't hear you anymore
and even if he seems the same to you
that's a stranger to your door
go on ask him what's he come here for
oh my god a monkey can move a man
send him to hell and home again
with an empty hand in the afternoon
shooting for the moon
he's halfway sick and it's halfway stoned
he'd sure like to quit but he's too far far gone
and they'll wind him down with the methadone
he's all on his own
baby don't you throw your love away
i hate to seem unkind
it's only that i understand the man
that the monkey can leave behind
and i used to think he was a friend of mine
Go will i
Over yonder
I will see my mother
And my sister
And my father
Oh but my brother is going to hell
Well they hung him
From the gallow
As the sun turned
Red from yellow
And the crowd they
Heard him haughty
And they sighed
With much relief
The preacher asked him
For any last words
My brother spit on
Onto his clean shirt
Oh and he smiled
Without redemption
Said this is one soul
God don’t need
Well now I loved him
I will miss him
As he’s burning
And twisting
For his heart with
Dedication
To the devil
And his creed
Well as a child we
We’d call him rotten
Tell him he was lonely
And forgotten
And he revenged our
Constant cheering
Oh with his every
Word and deed
Oh yeah and for my
Contribution
To his souls lack
Of retribution
Oh well I ask the
Lords forgiveness
On my very bended knee
it was you who walked into my life
you were the one
you hear my cries of loneliness
through my cool cautious eyes
can't you see me reaching out for you
can't you feel me there
won't you please believe me
i could never touch you for the fear
that i might never let you go
it was you with the courage and the commitment
to start your new life
you make me believe in mine
but can't you see the confusion
through my troubled smile
i'm torn between losing me
losing me and gaining you
maybe i've been distant
maybe i've been cold
but i've done it for my own existence
and i do believe i do believe it's getting old
i might never say that i love you
i might never say i care
but i will tell you now
that i'll always be there
stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time
there's something wrong here there can be no denying
now one of us is changing
or maybe we've just stopped trying
but it's too late baby, now it's too late
though we really did try to make it
something inside has died and i can't hide
and i just can't fake it
it used to be so easy living here with you
you were light and breezy i knew just what to do
but now you look so unhappy and i feel like a fool
but it's too late baby, now it's too late
though we really did try to make it
something inside has died and i can't hide
and i just can't fake it
there'll be good times again for me and you
but we just can't stay together don't you see that it's true
still i'm glad for what we had
and how i once loved you
but it's too late baby, now it's too late
though we really did try to make it
something inside has died and i can't hide
and i just can't fake it
it's too late baby
it's too late now darling
it's too late
they said some men would be warriors
some men would be kings
some men would be owners of land
and other man-made things
false love as the eternal flame
would move some to think in rings
and gold would be our power
and other foolish things
and you who dream of liberty
must not yourselves be fooled
before you get to plea for freedom
you've agreed to being ruled
if the body stays a shackle
then the mind remains a chain
and that will link you to your destiny
where by other souls are slain
it won't take long
it won't take too long at all
three men in a desert wandering
one is knowing and two are scared
they say time is in the river
oh but the river is not there
dry in spirit
dry in body
two will lend themselves to death
and in grief one weeps into his hands
and drinks his bitter tears
'cause it don't take long
it don't take too long at all
no it don't take long
you may say
i don't know what you're talking about
and i say
you mean to tell me that's all
and i stand before you now
i am hopeful in my rage
you know love has finally called for me
i will not wilt upon its stage
but you know still smaller than my nightmare
now do i print upon the page
and do we have to live inside its walls
to identify the cage
'cause it takes so long
why does it take so long
and it takes so long
you may say
i don't really care what you're talking about
i'm gonna ask you
you trying to tell me you don't belong
i am my mother's daughter
but i have seen myself in you
it's this blessing that i follow now
and so i must speak true
i dreamed of thousands dying
it was you and you and you
and while the city sleeps so quietly
there is something we must do
and it wont' take long
it won't take too long at all
it won't take long
may say
i don't know if i wanna know what you're getting at
it makes me wanna say
so long
grief shall come in measures
only grief alone will know
and you'll see it on your family
and on your own face it will grow
then they'll try to keep you hungry
and they'll tell you to eat snow
you know pride can be a moving thing
if we learn the strength of no
and it won't take long
it won't take too long at all
no it won't take long
you may say
i don't think this has anything to do with me
did you ever think you could be wrong
at noon on one day coming
human strength will fill the streets
of every city on our planet
hear the sound of angry feet
with business freezed up in the harbour
the kings will pull upon their hair
and the banks will shudder to a halt
and the artists will be there
'cause it won't take long
it won't take too long at all
no it won't take long
and you may say
i don't think i can be a part of that
and it makes me want to say
don't you want to see yourself that strong
division between the peoples
will disappear that honoured day
and though oceans lie between us
lifted candles light the way
half will join their hands by moonlight
the rest under the rising sun
as underneath the sun and moon
a ritualed wailing has begun
and it won't take long
it won't take too long at all
and it won't take long
and you may say
i don't know how to be a part of what you're talking about
and it makes me want to say
come on
come on
oh beware you sagging diplomats
for you will not hear one gun
and though our homes be torn and ransacked
we will not be undone
for as we let ourselves be bought
we're gonna let ourselves be free
and if you think we stand alone
take a look around and you will see
we are children in the rafters
we are babies in the park
we are lovers at the movies
we are candles in the dark
we are changes in the weather
we are snowflakes in july
we are women grown together
we are men who easily cry
we are words no quickly spoken
we're the deeper side of try
we are dreamers in the making
we are not afraid of why
"I'll Give You My Skin" is a song written by both of the girls with
Michael Stipe. I kinda suspect that the lyrics are mostly Stipe.
Anyway, I'm told that it was recorded at the end of 1988, while the
girls were recording their first Epic album. It appears on the "Tame
Yourself" benefit compilation. Go buy it.
I'll Give You My Skin.
Well, you - you can sit in your high chairs
High chairs are for children
You can sit in your high chairs and laugh
I'll give you my best face
I'll give you my freedom
I'll give you my feet and my hands
I'm keeping my eyes
Open, open, open to the field
Hold your dances there
Take the crop
Share the yield
You can join us together
Break us apart
A wound in the skin is a break in the heart
You can coast on your laughter
High shelf your heart
But laughter's for healing, not tearing apart
I'm keeping my eyes
Open to the fields
You can hold your dances there
Take the crop
Share the yield
Not a soul is lost
For collapsing the walls
You can dance in the dust
You can walk it off, walk, walk it off
If you're fallin', you're fallin'
Come callin' to me
Fallin', Fallin'
I'll give you my skin
I will give you my skin
I'm keeping my eyes
Open to the field
(If you're fallin, you're fallin', come callin' to me)
You can hold your dances here
(If you're fallin, you're fallin', come callin' to me)
Take the crop, share the yield
(If you're fallin, you're fallin', come callin' to me)
I'm keeping my eyes
(If you're fallin, you're fallin', come callin' to me)
Open to the field
(If you're fallin, you're fallin', come callin' to me)
Hold your dances there
(If you're fallin, you're fallin', come callin' to me)
Take the crop, share the yield
(If you're fallin, you're fallin', come callin' to me)
If you're fallin, you're fallin', come callin' to me
If you're fallin, you're fallin', come callin' to me
"If You Live Like That" is one of the few songs ever co-written by
Amy AND Emily. It appears on "Blue Food." I thought it kinda fits
in with the Dylan stuff I've been posting, 'cause the chorus is
basically them listing his album titles...
If Y
ou Live Like That.
You say you want to live for today
Before today is lost
But when the returns come in
Do they balance the cost?
I can see your four wheels spin
I can smell smoke from the blaze
But we aren't moving anyway
If you're seeing past rose colored shades.
Chorus:
If you live like that
Don't look back
'Cause it's cold
And it's mighty
It may turn your back
Blood on the tracks, baby
Blood on the tracks
Blood on the tracks, baby
I said, don't look back.
I see it all around
People want it good and want it fast
As long as it moves you for the moment
It doesn't matter if it lasts
But our love is sweet
It can drive me to my knees
But we still got troubles, you and I
Seeing the forest for the trees.
Chorus.
I've had enough of these two lives
You say you'll give to me
I've had enough of your freedom
You know I want to feel free
I've had enough gospel
I could spin my head around
I said, if you're so caught up in heaven
You don't even see the ground.
Chorus.
All we need is to take time (slow down, new way)
See tomorrow in plain sight (new dawn, new day)
New horizon in plain view
And we're hauling up the engine
To put you straight on through.
Chorus.
Blood on the tracks, baby
Blood on the tracks
Blood on the tracks, baby
I said, don't look back
Blood on the tracks, baby
Blood on the tracks
Blood on the tracks, baby
I said, don't look back
Don't look back
Looking out across suburban yards to the construct of our days through the thinning of the trees.
Why can I only build a house of cards?
That gets blown to pieces with the fall's first fickle breeze.
When I feel that stirring, the illicit kiss.
That's just the cool tongue of the devil with a sucker in his midst.
Chorus
One day I'll change you'll be the first one that I call.
I owe you an apology too many thanks and that's not all.
I've been running long before I learned to crawl.
My calendar lies crumbled laid to waste.
It's been scrawled on, thumbed through and changed.
Will this be the measure of my days?
Dinners and appointments and deadlines I can't make.
And when I start to see I start to see it making sense for me.
That's just hope springing eternally.
Chorus
Outside the summer's gone for good.
Dying impatiens stacked up wood.
My friend will get together to cook.
To talk about what happened to take a second look.
The master loves the servant who blind heeds him.
The husband the obedient wife.
The snake will always bite the hand that feeds him.
Even if you love him even if you save his life.
Chorus
i can tell by your eyes
that you've probably been crying forever
and the stars in the sky
don't mean nothing to you they're a mirror
i don't wanna talk about it
how you broke my heart
if i stay here just a little bit longer
if i stay here won't you listen to my heart
my heart
if i stand all alone
will the shadows hide the color of my heart
will they be blue for the tears
black for the nights we spent apart
and the stars don't mean nothing to you
they're a mirror
i don't wanna talk about it
how you broke my heart
oh if i stay, if i stay here
won't you listen to my heart
i don't wanna talk about it
how you broke my heart
if i stay, if i stay here just a little bit longer
if i stay here won't you listen to my heart
if i stand all alone
will the shadows hide the colors of my heart
Looking For Myself
anata no sora ni naritai aisuru CHIKARA ni kawatte
Thank You For Your Love
kuchizusamu MERODI subete ha hikari no sashikomu hou he
I Do! watashi no hokoreru mono
I Do! anata ni todokete
itsuka mita RABU-SUTO-RI- youna
I Do! kiseki wo shinjitai
donna kimochi demo tsunagatte ikeba
konna SURO-SUTA-TO demo toberu hazu dakara
Looking For Myself
anata no sora ni naritai aisuru CHIKARA ni kawatte
Step Over The Rainbow
kuchizuke wo kawasou hikari no RIZUMU ga sashikomu hou he
I Do! KOKORO ga karamatte mo
I Do! yume kara samete mo
doko made mo tsuduku BYU-TIFURU-DEI
I Do! futari de egakou
donna kimochi demo yorisotte ikeba
ai no YU-TOPIA made yukeru hazu dakara
tsuyoi kimochi sae kokoni GYUTTO areba
donna asa wo mukae temo mayowanai dakara
Looking For Myself
anata no sora ni naritai aisuru CHIKARA ni kawatte
Thank You For Your Love
kuchizusamu MERODI subete ha hikari no sashikomu hou he
christopher robin and i walked along
as the branches lit up by the moon
posing our questions to owl and eyore
as our days disappeared all too soon
but i wandered much farther today than i should
and i can't seem to find my way back to the woods
so help me if you can i've got to get
back to the house at pooh corner by one
you'd be surprised there's so much to be done
count all the bees in the hive
chase all the clouds from the sky
back to the days of christopher robin and pooh
winnie the pooh doesn't know what to do
got a honey jar stuck on his nose
now he came to me asking help and advice
and from here no one knows where he goes
so i sent him to ask of the owl if he's there
how to loosen a jar from the nose of a bear
so help me if you can i've got to get
back to the house at pooh corner by one
you'd be surprised there's so much to be done
count all the bees in the hive
chase all the clouds from the sky
back to the days of christopher robin and pooh
so help me if you can i've got to get
back to the house at pooh corner by one
you'd be surprised there's so much to be done
count all the bees in the hive
chase all the clouds from the sky
back to the days of christopher robin
back to the ways of christopher robin
back to the ways of pooh
She’s been afraid to go out
She’s afraid of a knock on her door
There’s always a shade of a doubt
She can never be sure
Who comes to call
Maybe the friend of a friend of a friend
Anyone at all
Anything but nothing again
It used to be her town
It used to be her town too
It used to be her town
It used to be her town too
Seems like even her old girlfriends
Might be talking her down
She’s got her name on the grapevine
Running up and down the telephone line
Talking bout someone said someone said
Something bout something else
Someone might have said about her
She always figured that they were her friends
Maybe they can live without her
It used to be her town
It used to be her town too
It used to be her town
It used to be her town too
Well people’d gotten used to seeing them both together
But now she’s gone and life goes on
Nothing last forever
Oh no
She gets the house and the garden
He gets the boys in the band
Some of them his friends
Some of them her friends
Some of them understand
Lord knows that this is just a small town city
Yes and everyone can see you fall
It’s got nothing to do with pity
I just wanted to give you a call
It used to be your town
It used to be my town too
But you never know til it all falls down
That somebody loves you
Somebody loves you
Darling somebody still loves you
I can still remember
When it used to be her town too
It used to be your town
It used to be my town too
Ah but you never know til it all falls down
That somebody loves you
Somebody loves you
Clearing webs from the hovel
a blistered hand on the handle of a shovel
I've been digging too deep, I always do.
I see my face on the surface
I look a lot like narcissus
A dark abyss of an emptiness
Standing on the edge of a drowning blue.
I look behind my ears for the green
Even my sweat smells clean
Glare off the white hurts my eyes
Gotta get out of bed get a hammer and a nail
Learn how to use my hands, not just my head
I think myself into jail
Now I know a refuge never grows
From a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose
Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.
I had a lot of good intentions
Sit around for fifty years and then collect a pension,
Started seeing the road to hell and just where it starts.
But my life is more than a vision
The sweetest part is acting after making a decision
I started seeing the whole as a sum of its parts.
My life is part of the global life
I'd found myself becoming more immobile
When I'd think a little girl in the world can't do anything.
A distant nation my community
A street person my responsibility
"Half-Moon Cafe" is an Emily Saliers song, written during her
sophomore year at Tulane (the same year she wrote "Play It Again,
Sam"). The sole performance I have is from Live at WREK, on 27
February 1989.
Half-Moon Cafe
At the Half-Moon Cafe, we drink to our lives
Like pseudo-believers in love
We've been through our holes-in-the-walls and the dives
Where you drink to recall what you once had a vision of.
And we talk of our lives in a prison
Though we both know it's better to be
Safe within our indecision
Than taking the risk to be free.
And you were to be a great poet
And I'd find my fame in song
But we somehow saw failure more closely
Than fame all along.
And now you manage a hamburger stand
And I haven't found steady work yet
And we meet here to talk and pretend
That we know no regret.
But how much is chance
How much would you decide
How much is murder of our dreams
How much is suicide?
So you ask of my latest Top 40
And I ask of your latest great fiction
As I step outside I see that the moon is full
I have to laugh at the contradiction.
Well, at least we can laugh at our dreams
Though it's really much more bitter than sweet
Sometimes through all of this fragmentation
I imagine what it feels to be complete.
But how much is chance
How much would you decide
How much is murder of our dreams
Sometimes I live in the country
Sometimes I live in the town
Sometimes I take a great notion
To jump in the river and drown
Irene goodnight
Irene goodnight
Goodnight irene
Goodnight irene
I’ll see you in my dreams
Last saturday night I got married
Me and my wife settled down
Me and my wife parted
Think I’ll take another walk downtown
Irene goodnight
Irene goodnight
Goodnight irene
Goodnight irene
I’ll see you in my dreams
I love irene God knows I do
I’ll love her all my life
If irene should ever leave me
I’ll take morphine and die
Irene goodnight
Irene goodnight
Goodnight irene
Goodnight irene
I’ll see you in my dreams
Stop your rambling stop your gambling
Stop staying out late at night
Come home to your wife and family
Sit by the fireside bright
Irene goodnight
Irene goodnight
Goodnight irene
Goodnight irene
I’ll see you in my dreams
Goodnight irene
Goodnight irene
I’ll see you in my dreams
raise your hands
raise your hands high
don't take a seat
don't stand aside
this time
don't assume anything
but go go go
i am a problem child
i've been wild all my days
all my anger and my rage
my senses said it would lead me astray
i said go go go
raise your hands
raise your hands high
don't take a seat
don't stand aside
this time
don't assume anything
this time
don't assume anything
i said this time
don't assume anything
one two three four
jump jump jump so high
watch me let you down
if i stumble i will stumble
if i fall i will fall
try to hold it like rain in the river
but everything is getting bigger
better this won't last forever
touch me and fall
yeah
There are some things you can’t cover up
With lipstick and powder
I thought I heard you mention my name
Can’t you talk any louder
Don’t come any closer don’t come any nearer
My vision of you can’t get any clearer
Oh I wanna hear girls talk
I got a loaded imagination
Being fired by girls talk
Oh but I can’t say what you want to hear
I suppose we’re gonna have to play it by ear
Right here and now
Girls talk and they want to know how
Girls talk and they say it’s not allowed
Girls talk if they say that it’s so
Don’t you think that I know by now
That they word upon everyones lips
That your dedicated
Although you may be an old fashioned girl
Your still gonna get dated
Ah was it really murder
Were you just pretending
Lately I have heard you are the living end
Girls talk and they want to know about her
Girls talk they want to know if I care
Girls talk and they want to know where
I just want to hear girls talk
I gotta loaded imagination
Being fired by girls talk
Oh but I can’t say what you want to hear
I suppose we’re gonna have to play it by ear
Right here and now
Girls talk and they want to know how
Girls talk and they say it’s not allowed
Girls talk
Girls talk and they want to know about her
You know they want to know where
Wanna know if I care
I said girls talk
Jimmy died on his couch yesterday
A friend of his ex wife called me to say
He just gave it to God, slipped from the livin'
With the bills pilin' up and a back that was givin' in
It's been years since I've seen anyone
Now I'm sittin' here, in the dark
Stallin' out in my car
Wishing I could bum a light
From the ghost of the gang tonight
Kathy lost a nephew under the wheels of a train
A midday suicide after a losing streak
He just stood on the tracks and gave it to glory
I never called her, to say 'I'm sorry my friend.'
It's been years, but I'm thinking about you
And all of your tears
And I'm sitting here in the dark
Afraid to make a stupid call
Wishing I could bum a light
From the ghost of the gang tonight
Tonight I'm gonna take that ride for the years we missed and the friends that died
Sideswiped baby on the road somehow with a pack of dreams that just weren't allowed
Maybe you're walking those halls all quiet and sad
Or sitting in the dark all scared and mad
Feel my hand reach across and don't forget
Where you come from baby, 'cause there's truth in it
Yeah we huddled against the cold in those days
By the light of a fire in a pep-rally haze
With the smoke and lives past, and a reason for livin'
No matter how bad it got, we wouldn't give in to it
It's been years, since I've seen anyone cry these tears now
Sitting here in the dark, stalling out in my car
Wishing I could bum a light
From the ghost of the gang tonight
There's a letter on the desktop that i dug out of a drawer the last truce we ever came to from our adolescent war and i start to feel a fever from the warm air through the screen you come regular like seasons shadowing my dreams and the mississippi's mighty but it starts in Minnesota at a place where you could walk across with five steps down and i guess that's how you started like a pinprick to my heart but at this point you rush right through me and i start to drown and there's not enough room in this world for my pain signals cross and love gets lost and time passed makes it plain of all my demon spirits i need you the most i'm in love with your ghost i'm in love with your ghost dark and dangerous like a secret that gets whispered in a hush (don't tell a soul) when i wake the things i dreamt about you last night make me blush (don't tell a soul) when you kiss me like a lover then you sting me like a viper i go follow to the river play your memory like the piper and i feel it like a sickness how this love
Well I guess that I was lonely
That’s why I called you on the phone
Cause in a moment of forgiveness
I didn’t want to be alone
And I guess that I was willing
More than I ever was before
Cause in a moment of forgiveness
I come knocking at your door
Baby I woke up crying last night
Just to realize that you were gone
Has it been two long years without you
Tell me now when are you gonna come home
I guess now I’m hoping
Oh that you finally understand
And in a moment of forgiveness
You reach out and take my hand
Baby I woke up crying last night
Just to realize that you were gone
Has it been two long years without you
Tell me now when are you gonna come home
And I guess that now I’m hoping
Oh that you finally understand
And in a moment of forgiveness
You reach out and take my hand
The fisherman comes up
Puts his two poles in the sand
He stares out at the sea
Just exactly like me
But I've got a book in my hand
We will have caught on to something by the end of the day
But mostly we think about the one that got away.
I've seen like a bird
What pleasures the surface can bring
I've lost my best craft
Going foolishly back
To where to Sirens sing
I've stared up at the place where the water meets the sky
And though I stopped breathing I still believe I should try
Maybe a boat in search of lost treasures will pass by.
'Cause the fleet of hope is so pretty
When she's shining in the port
And the harbor clings to the jetty
For protection and support
Out in the choppy waters the sharks swim and play
You're all washed up when Poseidon has his day.
I've walked through the desert
Climbed over mountains so high
Through jungles and plains
I took buses and trains
And airplanes across the sky
But none as seductive as ocean before me alone
And now I know why
You layered your pockets with stones.
'Cause the fleet of hope is so pretty
When she's shining in the port
And the harbor clings to the jetty
For protection and support
Out in the choppy waters the sharks swim and play
You're all washed up when Poseidon has his day.
When I was a girl
All of my fancy took flight
And I had this dream
Could outshine anything
Even the darkest night
Now I wait like a widow for someone to come back from sea
I've always known
I was waiting for me
'Cause the fleet of hope is so pretty
When she's shining in the port
And the harbor clings to the jetty
For protection and support
Out in the choppy waters the sharks swim and play
You're all washed up when Poseidon has his day.
just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone
suzanne the plans they made put an end to you
i walked out this morning and i wrote down this song
but i just can't remember who to send it to
i've seen fire and i've seen rain
i've seen sunny days that i thought would never end
i've seen lonely times when i could not find a friend now
but i always thought that i'd see you again
won't you look down upon me jesus
you gotta help me make a stand
you just got to see me through another day
my body's achin' and my time is at hand
i won't make it any other way
i've seen fire and i've seen rain
i've seen sunny days that i thought would never end
i've seen lonely times when i could not find a friend now
but i always thought that i'd see you again
i've been walkin' my mind to an easy time
my back turned towards the sun
lord knows when the cold wind blows it'll turn your head around
but there's hours of time on the telephone line
to talk about things to come
sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground
i've seen fire and i've seen rain
i've seen sunny days that i thought would never end
i've seen lonely times when i could not find a friend now now now
but i always thought that i'd see you again
it's not time to make a change
just relax and take it easy
you're still young that's your fault
there's so much you have to know
find a girl and settle down
if you want well you can marry
look at me i am old but i'm happy
i was once like you are now
and i know that it's not easy
to be calm when you've found
something going on
take your time think a lot
think of everything you've got
you will still be here tomorrow
but your dreams may not
how can i try to explain
when i do he turns away again
and it's always been the same
same old story
from the moment i could talk
i was ordered to listen
now there's a way and i know
that i have to go away
i know i have to go
it's not time to make a change
(wait, wait)
just sit down and take it slowly
(wait)
you're still young that's your fault
(i have to go)
there's so much you have to go through
(and make this decision)
find a girl settle down
(i know)
if you want well you can marry
(know)
look at me i am old but i'm happy
all the times that i cried
(stay, stay)
keeping all the things i knew inside
(stay)
well it's hard but it's harder to ignore it
(why must you go)
if they were right i'd agree
(make these decisions)
but it's them they know not me
(i know)
now there's a way and i know
that i have to go away
i know i have to go
"Everybody's Waiting" is an Amy Ray song that originally appeared as
the B-side of the 1985 "Crazy Game" single. (some people think it's
the A-side, because it's printed first on the lyric sheet on the
sleeve, but if you check the labels and matrix numbers on the vinyl
itself, "Crazy Game" is definitely the A-side.) By the way, the same
exact studio version appears on "Blue Food." I personally think that
this may just be Amy's blackest song ever... In this song, Amy sings
the main vocal part, and Emily sings the role of the mother,
indicated here by indentation and quotes.
Everybody's Waiting (For Someone to Come Home).
Through the wind and the rain I hear my mother's cry
She says:
"I know my baby's out there
I just couldn't bear t
o ask her why
From my womb into the world
Lord, I wish the child would call
You know I'm needing some company
She makes my life so full."
Take my advice: go ahead and live your own life
Everybody's waiting for someone to come home.
Like the fire waits for the sand
This world is burning with the tension of human hands
Waiting to be cleansed, waiting for their ace of spades
They say:
"I sure hope he's coming
'Cause I feel like I've just been saved."
Take my advice: go ahead and live while you're alive
Everybody's waiting for someone to come home.
"Come to me and cleanse my soul..."
I'm free, I'm free...
"Only with you am I whole..."
Can't you see that I am me???
"I'll be waiting by the window..."
I'll be heading for the door...
I was driving down highway 85, yeah
Had to pull off the road just to hear my radio coming in clearer
Lord, this life's so full, I said, why do we ask for more?
While we're waiting for the man to come
We forgot what he's coming for
Take my advice: go ahead and live while you're alive
Everybody's waiting for someone to come home...
"I'll be waiting by the window..."
Everybody's waiting for someone to come home...
"I'll be waiting by the window..."
Everybody's waiting for someone to come home...
"Erase the Pain" is an Amy Ray song from "Color Me Grey."
Erase the Pain.
Time, where have you left me?
Here - without a heart
Without an answer
I tried to open my eyes
I tried to see the song
All things considered
This much remains the same
Hit that wall again
The same old barrier
Time after time I've tried to glimpse the other side
Oh, and time surely made me see
I was taking your love so carelessly
Now we know
Though it doesn't do much good anymore
I still feel the old, familiar pain
It could be that love is blind
I was blind to all your reasoning
But, at the start, you were blind to me
Now, I guess you could say we're even
But isn't that what we always wanted to be?
Putting our souls on the line to win this game
I'm feeling the strain
Now, I'll always love you
Through all this distance
All these barriers
Trying to erase the pain
Erase the pain
I fell for guys who tried to commit suicide,
With soft rock hair and blood shot eyes.
He tastes like Marlboro cigarettes, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups,
A Pepsi in his hand, getting off the school bus.
Films and drills and safety illustrations
The crushed cars of driver education
Now its tattooed girls with a past they can't remember,
Who pledged allegiance to a life of bending the curriculum.
She tastes like spring, there she goes again,
Drinking with the older guys, tripping by the lakeside.
Films and drills and safety illustrations
The crushed cars of driver education
When you were sweet sixteen, I was already mean and
Feeling bad for giving it up to the man just to make the scene.
Where were you, back when I had something to prove,
With the switchblade set and the church kids learning my moves?
I ran for miles through the suburbs of the seventies,
Pollen dust and Pixie sticks, kissing in the deep end
Of swimming pools before I knew what's in there.
We come into this life waterlogged and tender.
Films and drills and safety illustrations
Day after day I’m more confused
Still I look for the sun through the pouring rain
You know that’s a game that I hate to lose
And I’m feeling the strain
Ain’t it a shame
Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Beginning to think that I’m wasting time
I don’t understand the things I do
World outside looks so unkind
And I’m counting on you to carry me through
Oh give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
I said give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
When my mind is free
You know that a melody can move me
And when I’m feeling blue
The guitars coming through to soothe me
Thanks for the joy that you’ve given me
I want you to know I believe in your song
Rhythm and rhyme and harmony
You’ve helped me along making me strong
Oh give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
I said give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away all right
I said give me the beat boys and free my soul
(oh now it’s time to come on and free my soul)
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
(we’re gonna drift away)
Why don’t you give me the beat boys and free my soul
(take me, take me, take me away)
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
(oh)
I said give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
"Draw the Line" is an Amy Ray song. A studio version of it appears
on "Blue Food." (Additionally, there's a live version of it on the
legendary "Purple Parrot" bootleg - I mention it only because it is
immediately followed by a version of Elvis Costello's "Girls Talk" -
which is probably the only occasion in the history of music itself
that a band has played two songs in a row that both include the word
"jaded.")
Draw the Line.
You can write me a letter
But I won't tell you where I am
You can send me a postcard, baby
But I won't tell you where I stand
Well, I'm right outside of your window
And I'm walking on through your love
And I'm giving you all I can, babe
But I know you've been thinking "No."
And now, baby, it's time
Baby, it's time
To draw the line
Draw the line
You may have good intentions
And I may be dead wrong
If what you see here isn't love, babe
It's 'cause I'm too tired to be that strong
Now I'm burned out on your affection
Because it comes from a jaded tongue
And I'm burned out on your direction, baby
I know I'm not the only one
Baby, it's time
Baby, it's time
To draw the line
Draw the line
Draw that line, baby
Draw that line, yeah
Keep it straight
Keep it close
And tell me
What do you have in mind?
(solo)
I'm gonna take this heartache
I'm gonna turn it all inside out
I'm gonna find every livin' last drop of love
Until I'm too sure to have any doubt
Now you can love me if you want me
Or you can turn away and tell me to go
Now you can write me a letter
You can send me a postcard
But don't tell me what you're thinking
If you really don't know, baby
Baby, it's time to draw the line
Draw the line
"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" is a Bob Dylan song from 1963.
The girls have performed it a few times with Joan Baez.
It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don't know by now
It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It don't matter anyhow
When the rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm travelin' on
But don't think twice, it's all right.
It ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
It's a light I never knowed
It ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
I'm on the dark side of the road
Still, I wish there was something you could do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
We never did too much talkin' anyway
So don't think twice, it's all right.
It ain't no use in callin' out my name, now
Like you've never done before
It ain't no use in callin' out my name, now
I can't hear you anymore
I'm a-thinkin' and a-wond'rin' all the way down the road
I once loved a woman, a child, I'm told
I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul
But don't think twice, it's all right.
I'm walkin' down that long, lonesome road, babe
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
But goodbye's too good a word, babe
So I'll just say "Fare Thee Well."
I ain't saying you treated me unkind
You could have done better, but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right
"Don't Know Your Name" is one of the few songs that the girls
co-wrote. In this case, Amy wrote the music, and Emily wrote the
words. The song originally appears on "Blue Food," in a live version
complete with a little introduction...
Don't Kno
w Your Name.
A: We want you to know before we do it that this does not
promote... um, promis...promiscuous sex, or anything like that, in
any way. We... This is sarcastic - we're putting down the meat
market, basically.
E: It's not our philosoph
y on life, or anything.
A: Yeah. Really.
E: Of course, I wrote the words, you know, but...
A: That's right.
E (in mock drunken voice): I was SO WASTED, you know...
Audience member: What are you trying to say?
E (very straight): Nothing. We aren't s
aying a thing. We're
just talking.
A: We're trying to say that, uh, we're not Madonna.
(Laughs.)
E: This is a dirty song. Hope y'all like it.
(music begins.)
E: Amy wrote the music.
-----------------------
E (spoken): I walked into my favor
ite place one night; I just
got back from a lecture, and I was feeling kind of uptight. And at
the end of the bar, there was this guy, and, you know, I wasn't
really looking, but I caught him out of the corner of my eye. The
next thing I know, he was moving my way - I thought he wanted to
talk, but this is what he had to say:
A (sung): I don't know your name, babe
But I want to be your lover.
I don't know your name, babe
But I want to be your lover.
One time or another, baby -
I want to be your lover.
E: I have to admit, I was a little bit surprised, but I
wasn't really scared, 'cause I was twice his size. So I said to
myself, "Ok, I'll play his game...," and when he turned to me, I gave
him my name.
A: I know your
name, babe
But I got to know your number.
I know your name, babe
But I got to know your number.
I said, one time or another, baby -
I'm gonna be your lover.
E: Well, I said to myself, "This guy is persistent. He's a
little bit dumb, but at least he's consistent." I tried to talk
cool, but when we touched, I went under. I made a quick decision,
and I gave him my number.
A: I know your number
But I don't know what to say, babe.
E (effeminately): That's ok...
A: I know y
our number
But I don't know what to say, babe.
Oh, it don't matter anyway, no -
I don't talk when I'm making love to you
I wanna be you lover...
E: Well, you probably won't believe this, but we got married
one day. And I still don't know if he speaks English, 'cause he
doesn't have much to say. It's a damn good thing I like lying around
- we don't make much conversation - just love-making sounds. (Aside:
You know what I'm talking about? Y'all KNOW what I'm talking about!)
Well, one thing I've learned from being in this state -
E & A (sung): There are other ways to communicate!
A: I don't know your name, babe
But I want to be your lover.
I don't know your name, babe
But I want to be your lover.
One time or a
nother, baby -
"Don't Give Up on Me, Baby" is an Emily Saliers song, which was
probably written in 1986. They performed it live for WRFG's "What
the Folk" radio show in that year, and that performance was later
released on the 1987 album "Don't Eat Out of Dented Cans." It's a
cute little song, which reminds me a lot of "Crazy Game." In fact,
Emily plays the sole guitar part on this song, too.
Don't Give Up on Me, Baby
Don't, don't give up on me, baby
Though we've seen shaky times
There's still solid ground to be found
I said, don't, don't give up on me, baby
Though I may seem strong
It's only because you're around.
You know me better than I do
You know how things go to my head
I said a few things to you
Things that were better left unsaid
But don't, don't give up on me, baby
'Cause you know I love you, and I always, always will.
Now, love, love's a sweet kind of pain
It can give you wings to fly
Then it drags you on down
But, darling, I'll never love this way again, no
You're the sweetest, sweetest, sweetest love
I've ever found.
You know me better than I do
You know how things go to my head
I said a few things to you
Things that were better left unsaid
But don't, don't give up on me, baby, no
It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don't know by now
It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It don't matter anyhow
When the rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm travelin' on
But don't think twice, it's all right.
It ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
It's a light I never knowed
It ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
I'm on the dark side of the road
Still, I wish there was something you could do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
We never did too much talkin' anyway
So don't think twice, it's all right.
It ain't no use in callin' out my name, now
Like you've never done before
It ain't no use in callin' out my name, now
I can't hear you anymore
I'm a-thinkin' and a-wond'rin' all the way down the road
I once loved a woman, a child, I'm told
I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul
But don't think twice, it's all right.
I'm walkin' down that long, lonesome road, babe
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
But goodbye's too good a word, babe
So I'll just say 'Fare Thee Well.'
I ain't saying you treated me unkind
You could have done better, but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right
Don't think twice, it's all right
Trying to remember the very last time
I felt a simple thing going past
Was it the day in old Georgia
When you were trying to take a bath?
She sees the Day Lily's Boston sign
And the tears spring to her eyes
You turn the car around and your headed back down that track
She's had a heart attack
But the bottle of Jack sits on the counter like the devil she knows
And he beats her up and she fills her cup
With the ambers of a dying fire glow
See how she looked in her school year book
Her friends signed the margins all around
But would you stay in touch you know I miss you so much
I hope we get out of this town
Every day that you get up and force your cards
Playing your story in fits and starts
Take your prospects and your pickaxe and you trudge down to the stream
And you bloody your hands digging for your dream
I went looking for the answers from someone I heard believes that life gets easier
And you learn how to breathe and you learn how to grieve your past
You study the masters and their books
Giving in to the barbs and hooks
Till you except it with grace when your true love doesn't last
Every day that you get up and force your cards
Playing your story in fits and starts
Take your prospects and your pickaxe and you trudge down to the stream
And you bloody your hands digging for your dream
Every day that you get up and force your cards
You're playing your story in fits and starts
Take your prospects and your pickaxe and you trudge down to the stream
And you bloody your hands digging for your dream
Take your prospects and your pickaxe and you trudge down
Take your prospects and your pickaxe and you trudge down
Take your prospects and your pickaxe and you trudge down
We were down at deadman's hill smoking vines like cigarettes looking through the trashy mags trying to feel what's coming next you told me of crashing cars older brothers and late night bars i told you what i feel most and you kept it like a ghost forever don't you write it down remember this in your head don't take a picture remember this in your heart don't leave a message talk to me face to face lying on the bright blue jumping mat dinner bell is ringing barking dogs and model planes and the sound of passing trains we watch for bonfires in the sky on the beach in july spin the bottle steal the kiss postcards to the one i miss forever the one i miss forever don't you write it down remember this in your head don't take a picture remember this in your heart i'll leave a message when everything comes apart i remember cats on fire gasoline a burning spiral standing underneath the night fighting back with all my might empty cans and charred remains find them in the heat of day on the top of deadman's hill this
people smile and tell me i'm a lucky one
we've just begun
i think i'm gonna have a son
and he will be like he and me as free as a dove
conceived in love
the sun is gonna shine above
even though we ain't got money
well i'm so in love with you honey
and everything will bring a chain of love
and in the morning when i rise
you bring a tear of joy to my eyes
and tell me everything is gonna be all right
love a boy who holds the world in a paper cup
drink it up
love him and he'll bring you luck
and if you find he helps your mind
sister take him home
don't you live alone
try to earn what lovers own
even though we ain't got money
well i'm so in love with you honey
and everything will bring a chain of love
and in the morning when i rise
you bring a tear of joy to my eyes
and tell me everything is gonna be all right
and even though we ain't got money
well i'm so in love with you honey
and everything will bring a chain of love
and in the morning when i rise
you bring a tear of joy to my eyes
and tell me everything is gonna be all right
Dancing shoes
On the wall above your bedside
Saw it all as we performed our pirouette
Fleshes fused
As the flicker of the candles
Threw upon the wall a single silhouette
Tu es dans ma coeur et dans ma tete
Dancing shoes
We have loved on distant beaches
Where the winter never reaches
There we fell
Dying swan
On the dawn you danced before me
Though your eyes were dark and stormy
I stood still
Qui peut dire le faux et le re’el
Dancing shoes
Though the distances divide us
There’s a paradise inside us
We can’t lose
Me and you
Dance a ’pas de deux’
Forever
And I pray you never
Shed your dancing shoes
"Daddy's All Gone" is a James Taylor song. A live IG version appears
on "Shades of Indigo." If you ask me, that song alone is worth the
price of the disc. Em really shines, I think. Especially on the
word "train" that goes on forever... what SOUL... ooooh.
And her solo guitar arrangement is cool, too.
Daddy's All Gone.
Don't have much to say
Thought I'd call you up anyway
Just to try and tell you the way
That I feel today -
Oh, I miss you baby.
Sure, I'm on the road
I don't need to say much more
Just the same old well known stranger
That I was before -
Seems like yesterday.
Daddy's all gone
He's just a halfway home
He's holding on to the telephone
Singing "Please -
Don't let the show go on."
There's a bus every other hour
Even a midnight train
But that don't leave me the power
To see your face again -
It's not that simple anymore.
You see, there's a room full of smiling faces
And there's a man standing by the door
When he says it's time we take our places
And get down on the floor -
Oh, I'd like to kill him, baby.
Daddy's all gone
He's just a halfway home
He's hanging on to the microphone
Singing "Please -
Hello cowgirl in the sand
Is this place at your command
Can I stay here for awhile
Can I see your sweet sweet smile
Old enough now to change your name
So many love you is it the same
It’s the woman in you that makes you want to play this game
Hello ruby in the dust
Has you band begun to rust
After all the sin we’ve had
I was hoping that we’d turn back
Old enough now to change your name
When so many love you is it the same
It’s the woman in you that makes you want to play this game
Hello woman of my dreams
You know it’s not, it’s not the way it seems
All these purple words on a grey background
To be a woman and to be turned down
Old enough now to change your name
So many love you is it the same
It’s the woman in you that makes you want to play this game
Take to the highway won’t you lend me your name
Your way and my way seem to be one in the same
Momma don’t understand it
She wants to know where I been
I’d have to be some kind of natural born fool
To want to pass that way again
But you know I could feel it
On a country road
Sail on home to jesus won’t you good girls and boys
I’m all in pieces, you can have your own choice
I could seen a heavenly band full of angels
And they’re a comin’ to set me free
Don’t know much about the wild wind
But I can tell that it’s bound to because I could feel it
On a country road
Guess my feet know where the want me to go
Walking on a country road
Walk on down, walk on down, walk on down
Walk on down, walk on down a country road yeah
La la la la la la la
Country road
Yeah walking on a country road
Country road
Yeah
Walking on a country road
He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Looking for a new world
And a palace in the sun
And on the shore lay montezuma
With it’s coca leaves and pearls
In his halls he often wondered
With the secrets of the world
And the subjects gathered round him
Like the leaves around the trees
His coat of many colors
For the angry gods to see
And the women all were beautiful
And the men stood straight and strong
He offered life with sacrifice
So that others might go on
Yeah
Now hate was just a legend
And war was never known
The people worked together
And they lifted many stones
And they carried them across the flatland
But they died along the way
(many lives were lost)
Built up with their bare hands
What we still can’t do today
(many lives were lost)
And I know she’s living there
And loves me to this day
I can’t remember when
Or how I lost my way
Ah-oh
Ah-oh
Ah-oh
Ah-oh
He came dancing across the water
Cortez, cortez
What a killer
In the quiet silent seconds i
I turned off the light switch and i
I came down to meet you in the
Half light the moon left while a
A cluster of night jars sang some
Songs out of tune
A mantle of bright light shone
Down from the room
Come down in time
I still hear him say
So clear in my ear
Like it was today
Come down in time
Was the message he gave
Come down in time and i’ll
Meet you half way
Well I don’t know if I should have
Heard him as yet but a
True love like his is a
A hard love to get and i’ve
Walked most all the way and i
I ain’t heard him call and i’m
Getting to thinking
If he’s coming at all
Come down in time
I still hear him say
So clear in my ear
Like it was today
Come down in time
Was the message he gave
Come down in time and i’ll
Meet you half way
There are men and men and
Some hold you tight while
Some leave you counting the
Stars in the night
"Color Me Grey" is an Amy Ray song, from "Color Me Grey." Go figure.
Color Me Grey.
Her life is a show
One act follows the other everywhere she goes
She takes the leading role
She never plays herself, save for the time she's on the stage
Color her black or white
Now, either one reflects the teardrops
One extreme for the other
Nothing in between
Color her white for the princess she could be
Color her black for the troubled child she plays so well
Well, she's dancing through hell on a dream.
And blue is soul of the one
Reaching for the man that she hasn't got yet
And holding on to those hearts for lost causes
She could be so bright
But she's reaching for us all
Color her blue for the loneliness she feels
She's hiding her heart in the sky.
And this is a Thursday afternoon
It's just another Thursday afternoon
It's just another Thursday afternoon
Color me grey
I'm a little bit of everything today
And I'm not sure where I'm going
Color me grey
Wishing I was something more of distinction.
Color us all 'cause we're just stars
Wishing our lives away
Into the distance
And out of existence.
Color her black or white
Color her blue
Or color me grey
Color us all - we're stars
Wishing our lives away
"Clues to You" is an Amy Ray song from "Color Me Grey."
I honestly have no clue what the first half of the first line is.
Any clues, anyone?
Clues to You.
(They're on) those days when the sun barely touches the sky
Your eyes are so heavy with the morning
And there you lie on the horizon of my mind
Streams flow through the consciousness of time
And I follow every movement for a clue to you
You cover my eyes with your deepness
You wrap my soul in the beauty of it all
You take me away from my incompleteness
Lead me all the way, or not at all
And time's too precious here
I can't wait for clues to you
I can't wait for clues to you
Don't wake me if I'm dreaming, no, no, no, this is my reality
If I touch you now, tell me, will you blow away?
Please don't move now, until you set me free - set me free
I can't wait for clues to you
Name the time and I'll be your place
Remove my eyes from this deathly haze
Now, I've been living shades of blue and grey
Don't you know I'm ready for a brighter phase
And time's too precious here
I can't wait for clues to you
I can't wait for clues to you
Won't you catch me if I fall too fast
Don't let me fly too high
You've released me from my earthly grasp
And now you've got me in your skies - in your skies
I can't wait for clues to you
Now I don't want to wait anymore for clues
Let it rain
Let it wash on down
I can't wait for clues to you
It was christmastime in washington
The democrats rehearsed
Gettin’ into gear for four more years
Of things not gettin’ worse
The republicans drank whiskey neat
And they thanked their lucky stars
They said "he can not seek another term
They’ll be no more f.d.r.s"
I sat home in tennessee
Just starin’ at the screen
An uneasy feelin’ in my chest
Just wonderin’ what it means
So come back woody guthrie
Come back to us now
Tear your eyes from paradise
And rise again somehow
If you run into jesus
Maybe he can help us out
Come back woody guthrie
To us now
I followed in your footsteps once
Back in my travelin’ days
Somewhere I failed to find your trail
Now I’m stumblin’ through the haze
There’s killers on the highway now
And a man can’t get around
So I just sold my soul for wheels that roll
Now I’m stuck here in this town
So come back woody guthrie
Come back to us now
Tear your eyes from paradise
And rise again somehow
If you run into jesus
Maybe he can help us out
Come back woody guthrie
To us now
See there’s foxes in the henhouse
And there’s cows out in the corn
The unions have been busted
And their proud red banners torn
But if you listen to the radio
They’ll tell you all is well
But you and me and cisco know
It’s goin’ straight to hell
So come back emma goldman
Rise up old joe hill
The barricades are goin’ up
They cannot break our will
Come back to us malcolm x
And martin luther king
We’re marchin’ into selma
While the bells of freedom ring
And come back woody guthrie
Come back to us now
Tear your eyes from paradise
And rise again somehow
All the girls with anorexia are on the street tonight
And the boys in the band think they look just fine
And I don’t even know why I drove this car down congress avenue
Hoping to find you turning on the light
Well you seem like a girl with the world on your side
But it’s just a point of view
And you know how quickly that could change too
See I heard you were free or someone thinks you should be
And I know just how that feels
I thought maybe we could just talk for a while
Cause baby I got something to stand for
I got somewhere we could go home
I just need someone to stand with
See it ain’t no good this feeling alone
When you said that you’d go down to mexico
Well I think that I might go there too
But it’s probably too late to find someone like you
Yeah it sounds really cool to be without a care in some southern town
But I heard there’s trouble down there if you’re chiapas bound
Yeah it sounds really cool to be without a care in some southern town
But I heard there’s trouble down there if you’re chiapas bound
In my mind I’m going to carolina
Can’t you see the sunshine
Can’t you just feel the moon shining
Ain’t it just like a friend of mine
It hit me from behind
And I’m going to carolina in my mind
Karen she’s a silver sun
You best walk her way and watch it shining
Watch her watch the morning come
A silver tear appearing now I’m crying ain’t i
I’m going to carolina in my mind
There ain’t no doubt it no ones mind
That loves the finest thing around
Whisper something soft and kind
Hey babe the sky’s on fire I’m dying well ain’t i
I’m going to carolina in my mind
In my mind I’m going to carolina
Can’t you see the sunshine
Can’t you just feel the moon shining
Ain’t it just like a friend of mine
To hit me from behind
And I’m going to carolina in my mind
Dark and silent late last night
I think I might have heard the highway calling
Geese in flight and dogs that bite
Signs that might be omens say I going going
I’m going to carolina in my mind
Now with a holy host of others standing round me
Still I’m on the dark side of the moon
And it seems like it goes on like this forever
You must forgive me
If I’m up and going to carolina in my mind
In my mind I’m going to carolina
Can’t you see the sunshine
Can’t you just feel the moon shining
Ain’t it just like a friend of mine
To hit me from behind
And I’m going to carolina in my mind
Going to carolina in my mind
Going to carolina in my mind
Indian legislation's on the desk of a do-right Congressman
He don't know much about the issues
So he picks up the phone and calls the senator out in Indian Country
A darling of the energy companies ripping off what's left
Of the reservation
I learned a safety rule, I don't know who to thank
Don't stand between the reservation and the corporate bank
They're sending federal tanks
It isn't nice but it's reality
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
I said deep in the earth
Won't you cover me with pretty lies
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
We got these energy companies, they're trying to take the land
And we got churches by the dozen trying to guide our hand
And sign our Mother Earth over to pollution, war, and greed (no, no)
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee (I said deep in the earth)
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee (Cover me with pretty lies)
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
We got the federal marshalls, we got the covert spies
We got the liars by the fire, got the FBI
They lie in court and get nailed but still Leonard Peltier goes off to jail
The bullets don't match the gun!
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee (an eighth of the reservation)
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee (transferred in secret)
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee (got your murder and intimidation)
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee (bury me, bury me, bury me)
My girlfriend Anna Mae talked about uranium
Her head was full of bullets and her body dumped
The FBI cut off her hand and told us she died of exposure (yeah right)
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee (I said deep in the earth)
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee (Won't you cover me with your pretty lies)
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
Talk about (hey!) a revolution
(They stole my land,
They won't steal my soul)
We had the gold rush wars, why didn't we learn to crawl?
And now our history gets written in a liar's scrawl
They tell me, 'honey, don't be so uptight you can still be an Indian down at the Y on Saturday night'
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee (deep in the earth)
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee (cover me with your pretty lies)
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee (bury me, bury me, bury me)
Bury my heart (an eighth of the reservation)
Bury my heart (was transferred in secret)
Bury my heart (got your murder and your intimidation)
(Bury me, bury me, bury me)
Bury my heart
Bury my heart
Bury my heart
Bury my heart
You’re standing in the blood quantum line
With a pitcher in your hand
Poured from your heart into your veins
You said I am
I am
I am
Now measure me
Measure me
Tell me where I stand
Allocate my very soul
Like you have my land
Genocide
Genocide
Colonize you
Christianize you
Patronize you
Advertise you
We loved you genocide
Regulate you
Assimilate you
Appropriate you
We love to hate you
Genocide
(you are a man without a face)
(you’re just a number on a page)
Genocide
(there you are a woman without a face)
(we’ll just erase you)
There you are a man without a face
You’re just a number
(you’re just a number on a page)
There you are a woman without a face
We’ll just erase you
Conscripted children
Torn from truth
To the boarding school station
Force fed the foreign tongue of fire
And a prison education
Broken knowledge
Pencil scarred
Spit faced
The scattered sage
Wisdom deep within the rock
(the wisdom deep within the rock)
Outlives
(outlives the pretty lies upon the page)
Genocide
(how white the snowy graves)
How red the blood terrain
Genocide
(still pulsing with your dreams)
Above that stubborn stain
There you are a man without a face
(how white the snowy graves)
(how red the blood terrain)
Red the blood terrain
(still pulsing with your dreams)
There you are a woman without a face
(above that stubborn stain)
Above that stubborn stain
Genocide
Genocide
Genocide
When I'm a walking I strut my stuff then I'm so strung out
I'm high as a kite I just might stop to check you out
Let me go on like I blister in the sun
Let me go on big hand I know you're the one
Body and beats I stain my sheets I don't even know why
My girlfriend she's at the end she is starting to cry
Let me go on like I blister in the sun
Let me go on big hands I know you're the one
When I'm walking I strut my stuff and I'm so strung out
I'm high as a kite I just might stop to check you out
When I'm walking I strut my stuff and I'm so strung out
I'm high as a kite I just might stop to check you out
Body and beats I stain my sheets I don't even know why
My girlfriend she's at the end she is starting to cry
When I'm walking I strut my stuff and I'm so strung out
I'm high as a kite I just might stop to check you out
Let me go on like I blister in the sun
Let me go on big hands I know you're the one
Author: Indigo Girls
Album title: Indigo Girls
Blood and Fire
----- --- ----
I have spent nights with matches and knives,
leaning over ledges, only two flights up.
Cutting my heart, burning my soul.
Nothing left to hold,
Nothing left but, blood and fire.
You have spent nights, thinking of me
Missing my arms, but you needed to leave.
Leaving the cuts, leaving my burns,
hoping I'd learn.
Chorus:
Blood and Fire
are too much for these restless arms to hold.
And my nights of desire are calling me,
back to your fold.
And I am calling you, calling you from 10,000 miles away
Won't you wet my fire with your live, babe?
I am looking for someone, who can take as much as I give,
Give back as much as I need,
And still have the will to live.
I am intense, I am in need,
I am in pain, I am in love.
I feel forsaken, like to things I gave away.
Chorus
I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love.
I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love.
I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love.
Chorus
Originally submitted by ?
Reformatted and extracted to a single lyric file by Doug Henkle
i'm just a bartender
i don't like my work
i don't mind the money at all
i see lots of sad faces
and lots of bad cases
of folks with their backs to the wall
i need four walls around me to hold my life
to keep me from going astray
a honky-tonk angel to hold me tight
to keep me from slipping away
i can light up your smokes
and i'll laugh at your jokes
and i'll watch you fall down on your knees
close down this bar
gas up my car
pack up and mail in my key
i need four walls around me to hold my life
to keep me from going a-stray
a honky-tonk angel to hold me tight
to keep me from slipping away
the smoke fills the air
in this honky-tonk bar
and i'm thinking about where i'd rather be
yeah
but i sunk all my bridges
i burned all my boats
i'm stranded at the edge of the sea
yeah
i need four walls around me to hold my life
to keep me from going astray
a honky-tonk angel to hold me tight
to keep me from slipping away
i need four walls around me to hold my life
to keep me from going astray
a honky-tonk angel to hold me tight
to keep me from slipping away
i like the way you wanted me
every night for so long baby
and i like the way you needed me
every time things got rocky
(ah ah ah ah)
i was believing in you
(ah ah ah ah)
was i mistaken
do you say
do you say what you mean
i want our love to last forever
but i'd rather you be mean
than love and lie
i'd rather hear the truth
and have to say goodbye
i'd rather take a blow
at least then i would know
but baby don't you break my heart slow
i like the way you'd hold me
every night for so long baby
i like the way you'd say my name
in the middle of the night
while you were sleeping
(ah ah ah ah)
i was believing in you
(ah ah ah ah)
was i mistaken
do you mean
do you mean what you say
when you say our love could last forever
well i'd rather you be mean
(you be mean)
than love and lie
(than lie)
i'd rather hear the truth
(hear the truth)
and have to say goodbye
(goodbye)
i'd rather take a blow
(i would know)
at least then i would know
but baby don't you break my heart slow
your would run around and lead me on forever
oh while i wait at home still thinking we're together
i wanted our love to last forever
oh yeah
oh yeah
(ah ah ah ah) i was believing in you (ah ah ah ah)
i'd rather you be mean
(you be mean)
than love and lie
(than lie)
i'd rather hear the truth
(hear the truth)
and have to say goodbye
(say goodbye)
i'd rather take a blow
(oh)
at least then i would know
but baby don't you break my heart slow
(no)
don't love and lie
(don't lie)
i'd rather hear the truth
(wanna hear the truth)
and have to say goodbye
(say goodbye)
i'd rather take a blow
at least then i would know
but baby don't you break my heart slow
baby don't you break my heart slow
"Anyway, I Love You" is an Amy Ray song from "Color Me Grey," her
solo demo tape / "album" from around 1985.
Anyway, I Love You.
Sweet Gypsy, blowing through my mind
And through my heart, so full and empty
Well, these days seem strange somehow
A billion years isn't what it appears to be.
Now you tell me that you're losing hold of time
You can't seem to find your peace of mind
Well, I'm so far away, and I'm trying to see you through
I can't help but feel I may be losing you.
Should I let you go
For your own sake?
Should I hold you close
For mine?
Anyway, I love you, and I couldn't be more sure
These tears cry out "Please, don't let go,"
Oh, but their words
They keep haunting me.
You can't build your life around a dream
Well, it's too late
Now, my world is you
There's nothing they could say or do.
Well, I remember the first time that I fell
I swear I never thought I'd make it up again
I've been flying on the wings of your love
And I'm not getting down, just to fall again.
Don't it seem like the road is, oh, so long?
Well, everybody's moving out
And we're staying on
In this absurdity.
Now you don't let go of me
I'm begging you
Now, you don't let go of me.
I was taken by surprise
I was haunted by his eyes
And the drink I came her for
Doesn’t matter anymore
And the night wind falls
With the moonlight from above
Is it winter is it summer or is it love
And it’s probably cold outside
But I don’t really feel it no
Every hour that passes by
Is another heart healer
And you can’t stop the rain from falling down
On the new leaves of summer on the ground
And for every bright star that falls from the sky
There’s another
Oh another on the rise
I’ve been broken
I’ve been blind
Been afraid to look inside
But his words were soft and warm
What did I come her for
An abandoned garden lost
In bittersweet and queen anne’s lace
Looked inside where a single rose grew
There I saw love’s face
And it’s probably cold outside
But I don’t really feel it
Every hour that passes by
Is another heart healer
And you can’t stop the rain from falling down
On the new leaves of summer on the ground
And for every bright star that falls from the sky
There’s another
Oh another on the rise
And it’s probably cold outside
But I don’t really feel it
Every hour that passes by
Is another heart healer
And you can’t stop the rain from falling down
On the new leaves of summer on the ground
And for every bright star that falls from the sky
There’s another
Oh another on the rise
On the rise
"American Tune" is a Paul Simon song. The girls have been performing
it since at least 1985. A live version of it appears on the
(promo-only) "Reverse 1" CD, and another on the (commercially
available, but kinda hard to find) "Ben and Jerry's Newport Folk
Festival '90" CD.
Many is the time I've been mistaken
And many times confused
Yes, and I've often felt forsaken
And certainly misused.
Oh, but I'm all right, I'm all right
I'm just weary to my bones
Still, you don't expect to be bright and bon vivant
So far away from home - so far away from home.
I don't know a soul who's not been battered
I don't have a friend who feels at ease
I don't know a dream that's not been shattered
Or driven to it's knees
Oh, but it's all right, it's all right
We've lived so well, so long
Still, when I think of the road we're travelling on
I wonder what's gone wrong
I can't help it, I wonder what's gone wrong.
And I dreamed I was dying
Dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly
And looking back down at me
Smiled reassuringly
And I dreamed I was flying
And high up above, my eyes could clearly see
The Statue of Liberty sailing away to sea
And I dreamed I was dying.
Oh, we come on a ship they called the Mayflower
We come on a ship that sailed the moon
We come in the age's most uncertain hour
And sing an American tune
Oh, oh, but it's all right - it's all right, it's all right
You can't be forever blessed
Still, tomorrow's going to be another working day
And I'm trying to get some rest
New york
To your tall skyline I come
Flying in from london
To your door
New york
Lookin’ down on central park
Where they say you should not wander
After dark
New york
Like a scene from all those movies
But you’re real enough to me
But there’s a heart
A heart that lives in new york
A heart in new york
A rose on the street
I write my song to that city heartbeat
A heart in new york
Love in her eye
An open door and a friend for the night
New york
You got money on your mind
And my words don’t make a dime’s
Worth a difference
So here’s to you new york
New york
Now my plane is touching down
Ku menanti-nanti
Ku termimpi-mimpi
Wajah bidadari
Kelmarin temui
Bila agaknya lagi
Bisa kita bersua
Ku merindu-rindu
Mata ayumu itu
Senyuman bibirmu
Terpaku dimindaku
Inikah rasanya
Bila sudah jatuh cinta
Wahai gadis misteri mengapakah kita
Ditakdir berjumpa seketika saja
Walau tidak berkata tapi jelingannya
Membuatku rindu... setiap waktu
Dimanakah dirimu...
Oh! gadis misteri
Ku mencari-cari
Adakah dikau kini
Rasa yang ku rasai
Ku menaruh harapan
Kita diketemukan
Gadis misteri
Ku sudah jatuh hati
Ku masih mencari
Oh! gadis misteri
Ku tercari-cari
Ku termimpi-mimpi
Tidak tertahan lagi
Rindu hatiku ini
Bila agaknya lagi
Bisa kita bersua
Oh! gadis misteri
Ku sudah jatuh hati
Ke Halaman Utama
Kian lama ku harungi sendiri
Perjalanan hidup sungguh sepi
Namun hati kian tabah
Menghadapi cabaran cinta...
Di dunia
Selama hujan masih membasahi bumi
Selama matahari terus menyinari
Selama embun hadir di pagi hari
Ku kan mengharap kasih menjelma
Kembali di sisi ku ini
Takkan ku biarkan semua impiku
Musnah di dalam minda ini
Sehingga harapan menjelma
Di suatu hari nanti
Selama hujan masih membasahi bumi
Selama matahari terus menyinari
Selama embun hadir di pagi hari
Ku kan mengharap kasih menjelma
Kembali di sisi ku ini
Gembira hati membisik kata
Kiranya cinta lahir di jiwa
Diriku tetap menunggu
Janjiku seperti dulu
Kan setia kini...
Sehingga diriku pergi
Selama dunia masih berputar
Selama matahari menyinari bumi
Selama ombak pantai saling mengasihi
Ku kan mengharap kasih menjelma
Kembali di sisi ku ini
Sehingga nafasku terakhir
Dikau pernah berkata
Akulah segalanya
Tanpaku tak mungkin kau bahagia
Namun di sebaliknya
Setelah ku percaya
Kau bersikap dinginku terpinga
Andai kau pergi (3 x)
Hilanglah arahku
Jangan kau pergi
Usah kau pergi
Andai kau pergi hampir pasti
Berteman pilu sepanjang hayatku
Dengan sepenuh cinta
Daku tanam di dada
Dengan harapan terbina istana
Apakah di mindamu
Mengapa kau membisu
Hanya katakan kau masih menyinta
Ku tak mengerti
Mengapa kau bersikap sebegitu
Andainya
Kau tahu hatiku
Betapa penuh di dada menyintamu
Sayang
Ku masih tidak mengerti
Ke manakah hilangnya cintamu
Jiwaku resah dan sepi
Andainya kau pergi
Tiada puisi atau lagu
Tiada potret tiada ragu
Yang dapat ku ilham seindahmu
Nyata kau satu dalam berjuta
Wahai jelita kau istimewa
Walau ku kembara sedunia
Walau ketemu ramai wanita
Nyata kau tiada tandingannya
Seikhlas hati aku menyinta
Kau istimewa, teristimewa
Daku berikrar
Wahai maharaniku
Bina mahligai syahdu
Hanya engkau dan aku di situ
Tiada mimpi atau fantasi
Tiada rasa lebih berseri
Semekar murni hatimu sayang
Siang dan malam, aku terbayang
Kau istimewa, buat ku tenang
Daku berikrar
Wahai maharaniku
Bina mahligai syahdu
Hanya engkau dan aku di situ
Ingin ku bawa kau ke awana
Ingin memadu kasih asmara
Sepanjang hayatku curah cinta
Sebenar-benar ucapan kata
Kau istimewa oh! Percayalah
Ku perlu cinta dari wanitaku nan istimewa
Beriku cintamu nan istimewa
Well we blew off immigration, the moon was sitting high,
as we drove from the Lacandon into Comitan.
Gloria was singing and Cecilia closed her eyes,
and I saw them drifting out over the night sky.
Nuevas Senoritas,
are you gone to brighter days?
Have you found your greener valleys
and the place where your heart lays?
I'm heading back to the flatlands and you're heading up to the hills.
The rain brings you home in the middle of July.
I guess I just got lonesome when I think about how you feel,
with six months gone and no one to dry your eyes.
Nuevas Senoritas,
are you gone to brighter days?
Have you found your greener valleys
Let's not drag this out, everything's in motion
Though I've only ever loved you kind and with devotion
I remember when I met you and even from the start
I thought one day you'd probably just come home and break my heart
It's funny what you know and still go on pretending
With no good evidence you'll ever see that happy ending
You were looking for your distance and sensing my resistance you had to do your will
I had to learn the hard way
We were just an empty dream too big for hope alone to fill
I know I'm a dreamer, so I'll give you that
Still I hope I'm more than just a place you laid your hat
You're a land of secrets, its only citizen
And though I paid my dues I was never allowed in
And so I am a stranger but especially today
As I get sad and lonely and you get your way
You were looking for your distance and sensing my resistance you had to do your will
I had to learn the hard way
We were just an empty dream too big for hope alone to fill
Holding out for change I know we never stood a chance
Tonight I'll be sleeping on the mountain top,
I got a billion stars for my witness.
In the morning I'll go down and the sun comes up,
I'll take a drink from the Bitter Root River.
Have you been lonely?
Yes I've been lonely.
I've been lonely too.
Tonight I'll be sleeping on the mountain top,
I got a billion stars for my witness.
In the morning I'll go down and the sun comes up,
I'll take a drink from the Bitter Root River.
Have you been travelin?
Yes I've been travelin.
I've been travelin too.
Tonight I'll be sleeping on the mountain top,
I got a billion stars for my witness.
In the morning I'll go down and the sun comes up,
I think I'll bag that trip for two
And pack it up to Kakadu.
Honey, it's not for the weather
Or the lack of loving you.
I got all this in between
Something I could not foresee.
All the deals I made don't matter
If I can't just let you be.
Gone again gone again
There ain't no way I'm gonna let this heart mend
Gone again
I walked in King's Cross for a while,
Gave a junkie girl a smile.
We both trade it in for danger
Or the company of strangers.
She said all her family
Was at the welfare agency,
Then she swindled my last twenty
For a kiss and some poetry.
Gone again gone again
There ain't no way I'm gonna let this heart mend
Gone again
If I don't make Kakadu,
I'll be at the Rainbow Room.
I'll be courting some disaster
With the Melbourne wrecking crew.
Honey, all this is to say
That every dog don't got its day,
If we take the love we're given
And we throw it all away.
Gone again gone again
There ain't no way I'm gonna let this heart mend
Caramia a blank notebook and a backpocket fade,
you used to mock me sometimes I would cry when I was home later You hurt my feelings,
why why why, send it down in your notebook my wannabe Harriet the spy
And some say your genius is in your madness will you get better then will you leave us?
How you mixed with the darkness at such a young age
until in your chemistry science and violence turned silence to rage
Why are you dreaming this, one shoe off and a bridge to cross over
And where is your taxi fare, are you left by yourself or left by your lover?
For three nights straight now I dream I keep both of my shoes but I've forgotten my lines and
I've misplace my cues, and there's a sea full of faces and a show to go on,
and I'm struck mute at entrance with nothing to draw from
There were the secrets the big bang and the bigger joke
You seem to know all of them and injustice makes you red with choke
You love like you're desperate you don't know what love is
I thought if there was one thing I could give you one thing I could give you, maybe it was this
With your head on the bed board the anguished repeat the sweat of our sadness the twist of the sheets
I don't want what's best for you, where will I be when you've found it?
a love struck romeo
sings the streets a serenade
now he's laying everybody low
he's got a love song that he made
he finds a streetlight
and he steps out of the shade
and says something like
"you and me, babe, how about it?"
juliet says "hey, it's romeo!"
"you nearly give me a heart attack!"
yeah well, he's underneath the window
now she's singing "hey-la, my boyfriend's back"
"you shouldn't come around here
singing up at people like that
ah anyway, whatcha gonna do about it?"
juliet
the dice were loaded from the start
and i bet and you exploded into my heart
and i forget, i forget the movie song
when you gonna realize
it was just that the time was wrong
julie
we both come up on different streets
and they both were streets of shame
you know they're both dirty both mean
yes and the dreams were the same
and i dreamed your dream for you
and now your dream is real
so tell me honey
now how can you look at me
as if i was just another one of your deals
now you can fall for chains of silver
and you can fall for chains of gold
you know you fall for pretty strangers
and the promises they hold
well you promised me everything
and then you promised me thick and thin
now you just turn away and say
"romeo, i think i used to have a scene with him."
ah juliet
when we made love you used to cry
you said "i love you like the stars above
gonna love you till i die"
there's a place for us
i you know this song
now when you gonna realize
it was just that the time was wrong
julie
but i can't do the talks like they talk on my tv screen
i can't do a love song not the way you song them to me
i can't do everything but i would do anything for you
oh no i can't do anything except be in love with you
yeah now and all i do is miss you
and the way it used to be you know
and all i do is keep the beat
i keep bad, bad company
and all i do is kiss you
through the bars of a rhyme
when julie i'd do the stars with you
anytime
ah juliet
when we made love you used to cry
you said "i love you like the stars above
i'm gonna love you till i die"
there's a place for us
i know you know the movie song
one day we're gonna realize
it was just that the time was wrong
julie
julie
julie
now this love struck romeo
he sings the streets a serenade
now he's laying everybody low
he's got a love song he made
he finds a convenient streetlight
and he'll step out of the shade
and he'll say something like
"you and me, babe, how 'bout it?
The water is wide I can't cross o'er
And neither have I wings to fly
Give me a boat that can carry two
And both shall row, my love and I
O love is handsome love is fine
Gay as a jewel when first it's new
And love grows old and ever bold
And shines as bright as morning dew
A ship there is she sails the sea
She's loaded deep as deep can be
But not so deep as the love I'm in
I know not how I sink or swim
The water is wide I can't cross o'er
And neither have I wings to fly
Give me a boat that can carry two
And both shall row, my love and I
I'm scared as hell 'cause Squeaky's out of jail
But I can feel her close behind me like the devil on my heels
Well they say she's headin' to California, or maybe for D.C.
Well I'm sittin' here in Georgia, arguin' with my family
Contras called a truce but they broke it in an hour
And now someone's sittin' in a Tower of Babel and it's givin' them that power
Well let's stop the war in Bethlehem oh to let sweet Jesus pass
But tell me how much does it really mean if they screw hime over behind his back
I can feel her closing in and I hope she understands
That society and me that we aren't necessarily hand in hand
She's broken all her bonds, got no superficial cause
She gave up all the chances to live inside the law
And I said, Squeaky, peace on earth, can you tell me what it's worth?
From the inside out I let you in, cause you might understand
And Squeaky, I said, peace on earth, can you tell me what it's worth?
From the inside out I let you in, cause you might understand
And Squeaky, in your mixed up mind you may not be so blind
Oh Squeaky, I said, peace on earth, can you tell us what it's worth?
From the inside out I'll let you in oh cause you might understand
And God is in my heart but the devil's in our bones
Oh Squeaky oh you are not alone
Oh you are not alone
I said peace on earth
Give me peace on earth
Give me peace on earth
Give me peace on earth
Peace on earth
Give me peace on earth
Give me peace on earth
Give me peace on earth
I said, Squeaky, give me peace on earth, can you tell us what it's worth?
Now from the inside out I could, I could let you in, cause I know that you might understand
You see that God is in my heart oh but the devil's in our, the devil's in our bones
Oh you are not alone
leaving ain't fair you know
parting ain't just
people got to move on
people got to do what they must
and we're back together again
and i'm never gonna lose you as a friend
growing up free
growing up wild
if you want to know the secret behind the smile
you got to ask a tuesday's child
and we're back together again
and i'm never gonna lose you as a friend
well i guess that highway got a hold of me
thinking crazy thoughts like it was going to set me free
this ain't my place you know
this ain't my home
and i'm not going to feel right
til you get us back behind the microphones
and we're back together again
and i'm never gonna lose you as a friend
no i'm never gonna lose you as a friend
no i'm never gonna lose you as a friend
Pain from pearls-hey little girl-
How much have you grown?
Pain from pearls-hey little girl-
Flower for the ones you've known.
Are you on fire,
From the years?
What would you give for your
Kid fears?
Secret staircase, running high,
You had a hiding place.
Secret staircase, running low,
But they all know, now you're inside.
Are you on fire,
From the years?
What would you give for your
Kid fears?
Skipping stones, we know the price now,
Any sin will do.
How much further, if you can spin.
How much further, if you are smooth.
Are you on fire,
From the years?
What would you give for your
Kid fears?
Replace the rent with the stars above.
Replace the need with love.
Replace the anger with the tide.
Replace the ones, the ones, the ones, that you love.
Replace the rent with the stars above.
Replace the need with love.
Replace the anger with the tide.
Replace the ones, the ones, the ones, that you love.
Are you on fire,
From the years?
What would you give for your
Kid fears?
Replace the rent with the stars above.
Replace the need with love.
Replace the anger with the tide.
For you, I would tattoo me
With lines crossing into a hand,
And a heart that would never bleed.
The twilight and the horse
Drawn on my arm
Standing for an addiction,
Pray we go unharmed.
Here is my love and anger
These are my gods, these are my scars.
Here is my love and anger
My arms are burning, but they're open wide
Some things, I hold too tightly,
Some things, I'll never I'll never touch.
I'm wearing down the stones
In the river
All my life, i've painted
With anger's brush
Here is my love and anger
These are my gods, these are my scars.
Here is my love and anger
My arms are burning, but they're open wide
Oh, you precious kid
I have a motion just for you.
A warrior, barefoot and dancing
With tears of pain and beauty
All of this is true for you
Here is my love and anger
These are my gods, these are my scars.
Here is my love and anger
My arms are burning, but they're open wide
Pointing out the graveyards
I will be the reaper
If you will be
I drive a three county highway
and every one of them town's got a firework show.
It's 4th of July and I'm just now getting home,
on the horizon, I can see 'em all unfold.
It's been a warm winter and a cold spring,
everywhere I've been has felt wrong to me.
Everything I kept, what I never should have thrown away,
I wanted you for all those yesterdays.
I was wishing for you one Sunday morning,
walking down the road of some debtors' town.
From every church a hymn came blending in
and every one of them wanting to be found.
Did you say it took a long time to find
a lot less man and less harm done?
Did you say it took a long time to find
a handsome one to keep you young?
One day I'm gonna make it up to you,
one day we're gonna laugh instead of cry.
One day I'm coming home to stay, it's true,
and baby, that's the last ticket I'm ever gonna buy.
It's been a warm winter and a cold spring,
everywhere I've been has felt wrong to me.
So put your head on my heart and lay down in the crook of my arm.
Everything's okay, I've been found again, I've been found again.
I was downstairs in the greenroom
waiting for you to appear.
I said hello to your family,
I said hello to your friends,
I said hello to this situation
that never yields.
Now its easy for me to tell you
that my love for you is real.
I once stumbled on these feelings,
I once stumbled on these words,
something you'll never stumble on dear.
Oh you were so baroque,
all of those words,
just to tell me no.
And you were so softspoken
with all of the others
who said you weren't broken,
they just let you go.
When you're three days down the highway
and you're looking like I feel;
if it takes a lot to keep it going,
if it takes a lot to keep it real,
take sometime for yourself and
three hits to the heart son
and it's poetry in motion
one could send you down the river
three's a strange way to be delivered
would you trade your words for freedom
that's a barter for a blind man
three hits to the heart son
and it's poetry in motion
are you levee'd like a treasure
only words can help me find you
and this world's a fickle measure
I would painfully remind you
from a wise man to your red hand
you lay covered ion our best sins
three hits to the heart son
and it's poetry in motion
well I dream you constant stranger
with your best bloods and your anger
you say mother do you claim me
my beloved do you blame me
well the first two might release you
but the last one sings in me son
three hits to the heart son
and it's poetry in motion
three hits to the heart son
and the last one sings in me
I'm waking from a dream the neighborhood is green all the sounds i've missed all the years come down to wedding deaths and fears and all i've heard has been in vain like water on a stain touch me i'm so beautiful rub your hands across my head just like this come with me it's not worth it if you don't are you hiding i am hiding cypress moon bald in june like the granite in a stream swamp ophelia i'm torn down let your waters let me drown touch me i'm so beautiful rub your hands across my head just like this come with me it's not worth it if you don't are you crying i am crying jump jump jump so high watch me let you down if i stumble i will stumble if i fall i will fall i'm trying to hold it like rain in a river everything is getting bigger better this won't last forever touch me fall
I come to you with strange fire, i make an offering of love, the incense of my soil is burned by the fire in my blood. i come with a softer answer to the questions that lie in your path. i want to harbor you from the anger, find a refuge from the wrath.
This is a message of love. love that moves from the inside out, love that never grows tired. i come to you with strange fire.
Mercenaries of the shrine, who are you to speak for god? with haughty eyes and lying tongues and hands that shed innocent blood. who delivered you the power to interpret calvary? you gamble away our freedom to gain your own authority.
Find another state of mind. grab hold. strange fire burns with the motion of love.
When you learn to love yourself, you will dissolve all the stones that are cast, you will learn to burn the icing sky and to melt the waxen mask. yes, to have the gift of true release, this is a peace that will take you higher. i come to you with my offering., i bring you strange fire.
early one morning the sun was shining
i was laying in bed
wondering if she'd changed at all
if her hair was still red
her folks they said our lives together
sure was gonna be rough
they never did like mama's homemade dress
papa's bank book wasn't big enough
me i'm standing on the side of the road
rain falling on my shoes
i'm heading out to the east coast
lord knows i've paid some dues
getting through
tangled up in blue
she was married when we first met
soon to be divorced
i helped her out of a jam i guess
but i used a little too much force
and we drove that car as far as we could
abandoned it out west
we split up on a sad dark night
both agreeing it was best
she turned around and looked at me
as i was walking away
then i heard her say over my shoulder
we'll meet again someday
on the avenue
tangled up in blue
i was living in the great north woods
working as a cook for a spell
i never did like it all that much
and one day the axe just fell
so i drifted down to new orleans
where i happened to be employed
yeah i was working for a while on a fishing boat
right outside of de la croix
and all the while i was alone
the past was close behind
i'd seen a lot of women
but she never escaped my mind
and I just grew
tangled up in blue
she was working at a topless bar
and i stopped in for a beer
i just kept looking at the side of her face
in the spotlight so clear
now later on as the crowd thinned out
and i was just about to do the same
yeah but she was standing there at the back of my chair
she said don't i know your name
well i muttered something underneath my breath
she studied the lines on my face
i must admit i felt a little uneasy
when she bent down to tie the laces
of my shoes
we were tangled up in blue
i know i know i know
she lit a burner on the stove
and offered me a pipe
i thought you'd never say hello she said
you look like the silent type
and then she opened up a book of poems
and handed it to me
written by an italian poet
from the 13th century
every one of his words rang true
and glowed like burning coal
pouring off every page
like it was written in my soul
from me to you
tangled up in blue
yeah yeah
i lived with them on montague street
in a basement down the stairs yeah
there was music in the cafes at night
and revolution in the air
that's when he started into dealing with slaves yeah
something inside of her died just died
and she had to sell everything she owned
and she froze up inside
finally the bottom fell out
i became withdrawn
the only thing i knew how to do
was to keep on keepin' on
like a bird that flew
tangled up in blue
oh yeah
now i'm headed back again
i gotta get to her somehow
and all the people we used to know
they're an illusion to me now
some are mathematicians
some are carpenter's wives
i don't know how they all got started
i don't know what they're doing with their lives
but me i'm still on the road
headed for another joint
we always did feel the same
we just saw it from a different point
of view
tangled up in blue
i know i know i know
yeah yeah oh yeah
words and music bob dylan
Love struck Romeo
Sings the streets a serenade
He's layin' everybody low
He's got a love song that he made
Well he finds a convenient street light
And he steps out of the shade and says something like
"You and me babe how about it?"
Juliet says, "Hey it's Romeo
You nearly gave me a heart attack yeah well"
He's underneath my window now she's singin'
"Hey la my boyfriend's back
You shouldn't come around here
Singin' up to people like that
Oh anyway, what you gonna do about it?"
Oh Juliet the dice were loaded from the start
And I bet
And you exploded into my heart
And I forget, I forget the movie song
When you gonna realize?
It was just that the time was wrong
Julie
We both come up on different streets
And they were both streets of shame
They're both dirty both mean
And yes even our dreams were the same
But I dreamed your dream for you
And now your dream is real so tell me honey
Now how can you look at me as
If I were just another one of your deals?
Now you can fall for chains of silver
And you can fall for chains of gold
You know you, you fall for pretty strangers
And the promises since they hold
Well you promised me everything
And then you, and then you promised me thick and thin
And now you just turn away and say
"Romeo I think I used to have a scene with him"
Oh Juliet when we made love you used to cry
You said, "I love you like the stars above
I'm gonna love you till I die"
There's a place for us, I know you know this song
Now when you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong?
Julie I'm so in love
So in love yeah
But I can't do the talk
Like they talk on my TV screen
I can't do a love song
Not the way you sung it to me
I can't do anything
But I would do anything for you, oh no
I can't do anything
Except be in love with you
Yeah now all I do is miss you
And the way it used to be
And all, and all I do is keep the beat
I keep bad, bad company
And all I do is kiss you
Through the bars of this rhyme
When Julie I'd do the stars with you
Anytime
Oh Juliet when we made love you used to cry
You said, "I love you like the stars above
I'm gonna love you till I die"
There's a place for us, I know you know the movie song
One day you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong
Julie, Julie, Julie
Oh this love struck Romeo
Sings the streets a serenade
Layin' everybody low
He's got a love song that he made
Finds a convenient street light
And he'll step out of the shade and he'll say something like
Scooter boys and Argentineans Europe shed the blood of the Indian
Here I sit in the land of plenty
Crying about my own virginity
Hey blue blood you're nothing new
You see I come from privilege too
A chapter in the book on the Americas
You're just another colonial terrorist
Scooter Boys and Argentineans Europe shed the blood of the Indian
Here I sit in the land of plenty
Crying about my own virginity
Way down south where the Maya reign Zapata reading poetry in his grave
They said we're stealing from the best to feed the poor
In the ink of an eye I saw you bleed;
Through the thunder I could hear you scream,
Solid to the air I breath,
Open-eyed and fast asleep.
Falling softly as the rain;
No footsteps ringing in your ears.
Ragged down worn to the skin,
Warrior raging, have no fear.
Secure yourself to heaven.
Hold on tight, the night has come.
Fasten up your earthly burdens,
You have just begun.
Kneeling down with broken prayers,
Hearts and bones from days of youth.
Restless with an angel's wing,
I dig a grave to bury you.
No feet to fall,
You need no ground.
Allowed to glide right through the sun,
Released from circles guarded tight,
Now we all are chosen ones.
Secure yourself to heaven.
Hold on tight, the night has come.
Fasten up your earthly burdens,
Oh Ozilline, the moon is almost full
And you don't need a torch light
To see into these woods.
Sister, bring the medicine
To keep you from decline,
But it's the waxing and the waning
That's always on your mind.
Oh Ozilline, I feel for you.
As soon as the corn's in,
The deer will come to feed.
When the berry ripens,
The bird will come to eat.
Build by the river,
Its pretty but you'll pay,
'Cause the springtime brings the flood plain
Or your cutbank washes away.
Oh Ozilline, I feel for you.
I had to put the dog down,
Before I hit the road,
I watched that sweet old life
Become a bag of bones.
When your body's broken
And your heart wants to give in,
And you hear that hoot owl callin'
Just like she was a friend.
I woke up this morning, grey dawn,
with a prayer on my breath.
I lost something precious,
God'll save me from losing myself.
I think I know what's wrong,
I think I know what's wrong.
Now, I met the Queen and I understand
why she closed the door
I'm not making excuses,
But I've been there a few times,
I was knocking on her door.
I think I know what's wrong
I think I know what's wrong
There's a man, he lived in a house,
he had a family of five,
well, he blew up the windows and the doors,
he just couldn't survive.
We've all been removed in one way or another.
We don't know our families, we don't need our brothers.
Pushing the needle too far
Pushing the needle too far
If you wake up in the morning, grey dawn,
with a prayer on your breath,
maybe you lost something precious,
god'll save you, from losing yourself.
I think I know what's wrong.
I think I know what's wrong.
The queen who closed the door the family that lies
people who turn the cat that has died
a boy that od's a girl with a gun
the world on its knees and a band on the run
I think I know what's wrong
Honey pick the red corner shoes
The ones that hardly ever get used
I knelt in front of my whole collection
I'm picking you a special selection
On a no news is good news middle of mid-year day
I feel no ill with time to kill I wanna play
Let's make peace tonight
The moon is bare and shining bright
Let's make peace tonight in a good time
Callin' on my good friends today
You know the drive's about an hour away
We'll be pitching up a tent by the trees
We'll be wading in the river to our knees
Oh now love's been planted & we're checking out the yield
Two black dogs and a white one running in the field
Let's make peace tonight
The moon is bare and shining bright
Let's make peace tonight in a good time
We used to have some money but we spent it
So when we want to have it then we rent it
But we're cuttin' up the rug and I know you love me love me
And the best of everything here is free
Oh when things get messy then we tidy up the room
We'll be no stranger to the dustpan and the broom
Let's make peace tonight
The moon is bare & shining bright
Let's make peace tonight
The moon is bare & shining bright
As i drive from your pearly gates i realize that i just can't stay all those mountains they kept you locked inside and hid the truth from my slighted eyes i came to you with a half-open heart dreams upon my back illusions of a brand-new start nashville can't i carry the load is it my fault i can't reap what i sow? nashville did you give me half a chance with your southern style and your hidden dance? all those voices they whisper through my walls they talk of falling fast they say i'm losing it all they say i'm running blind to a love of my own but i'll be walking proud I'm saving what i still own i fell on my knees to kiss your land but you are so far down i can't even see to stand nashville you forgot the human race you see with half a mind what colors hide the face nashville i'd like to know your fate i'd like to stay awhile but i've seen your lowered state today i'm leaving but i've got all these debts to pay we all owe our dues i'll pay in some other place i never ask that you pay me back we all arrive
I sit two stories above the street it's awful quiet here since love fell asleep there's life down below me though the kids are walking home from school some long ago when we were taught that for whatever kind of puzzle you got you just stick the right formula in a solution for every fool i remember the time when i came so close with you sent me skipping my class and running from school and i bought you that ring cause i never was cool what makes me think i could start clean slated the hardest to learn was the least complicated so i just sit up in the house and resist and not be seen until i cease to exist a kind of conscientious objection a kind of dodging the draft the boy and girl are holding hands on the street and i don't want to but i think you just wait it's more than just eye to eye learn the things i could never apply i remember the time when i came so close to you i let everything go it seemed the only truth and i bought you that ring it seemed the thing to do what makes me think i could start
Midnight train to Georgia
l.a. proved too much for the man
(too much for the man)
(He couldn't make it)
So he's leaving the life he's come to know
(he said he's going)
He said he's going back to find
(going back to find)
What's left of his world
the world he left behind
not so very long ago
oh yeah
He's leaving
(leaving)
on that midnight train to georgia
(leaving on a midnight train)
oh yeah
oh ya'll
Said he's going back to find
(he's going back to find)
a simpler place and time
(and when he takes that ride)
yes he is
(guess who's gonna be right by his side)
I'll be with him
(i know you will)
on that midnight train to georgia
(leaving on a midnight train to georgia)
(whoo whoo)
I'd rather live in his world
(live in his world)
than live without him in mine
(world, world)
(it's his, his and hers alone)
He kept dreaming
(dreaming)
that one day he'd be a star
(a superstar but he didn't get far)
But he sure found out the hard way
that dreams don't always come true
(dreams don't always come true)
oh no
(uh uh no uh uh)
So he sold all his hopes
and he even sold his own car
And bought a one way ticket back
to the life that he once knew
oh yes he did
he said he would
I know he's leaving
(leaving)
on that midnight train to georgia
(leaving on a midnight train)
oh yeah
oh ya'll
said he's going back to find
(he's going back to find)
a simpler place and time
(and when he takes that ride)
yes he is
(guess who's gonna be right by his side)
I've got to be with him
(i know you will)
on that midnight train to georgia
(leaving on the midnight train to georgia)
(whoo whoo)
I'd rather live in his world
(live in his world)
than live without him in mine
(world, world)
(it's his, his and hers alone)
he's leaving
(he's leaving)
on a midnight train to georgia
(leaving on a midnight train)
oh yeah
he said he's going back to find
(he's going back to find)
a simpler place and time
(and when he takes that ride)
(guess who's gonna be right by his side)
I've got to be with him
(I know you will)
on that midnight train to georgia
(leaving on a midnight train to georgia)
(whoo whoo)
I'd rather live in his world
(live in his world)
than live without him in mine
(world, world)
(is his, his and hers alone)
(world is his,his and hers alone)
(all aboard)
(one world)
(her man, his girl)
I've got to go
(all aboard)
I've got to go
(one world)
I've got to go
(her man, his girl)
I've got to go
(all aboard)
I've got to go
(one world)
I've got to go right now
(her man, his girl)
(all aboard)
(one world)
(her man, his girl)
(all aboard)
(one world)
(her man, his girl)
Oh Eve, where is Adam?
I see you've been kept
out of the garden
And I said
Oh, Eve, where is Adam?
Now you've been kept
out of the garden
I have wandered from shore to shore
Don't you find that there's no more
Pacem in terres me shanti shalom aywah
Don't you wish
love alone
Don't you wish
love
Don't you wish
love alone
Don't you wish
love
Don't you wish love alone
could save the world from disaster
Is only love, inner confusion
Is it just one more illusion
And I said
Pacem in terres me shanti shalom aywah
Well, if you want to have great love
you've got to have great anger
Well, if you want to have great love
you've got to have great anger
When I see innocent folks shot down
Should I just shake my head and frown
Oh Pacem in terres me shanti shalom aywah
Girl if you want to hit the target square
you've gotta look out (for it not happening there)?
Or else it'll be just one more time
The correction creates another crime
Girl if you want to hit the target square
you better not have right angles
Oh, just keep one more time
for the correction creates another crime
Oh, Eve, you tell Adam
Next time he asks you
You say baby it's cold outside
What's the password
to come inside
You say
Pacem in terres me shanti shalom haywah
Oh Eve go tell Adam
We've got to build a new garden
Oh Eve go tell Adam
We've got to build a new garden
Got to get working on a building
A decent home for all of god's children
Oh Pacem in terres me shanti shalom aywah
Well if music
could only bring peace
I'd only be a musician
Well if music
could only bring peace
I'd only be a musician
Well if songs could do more than
dull this pain
And all melodies bravely changed well
Oh Pacem in terres me shanti shalom aywah
Oh Pacem in terres me shanti shalom aywah
Oh Pacem in terres me shanti shalom aywah
Four thousand languages in this world
Doesn't mean the same thing
to every boy and girl
Oh Pacem in terres me shanti shalom aywah
Pacem in terres me shanti shalom aywah
(save the world from disaster
well if only love....
...well I sad...
...just one more illusion...
Oh Pacem in terres me shanti shalom aywah)
These are the last tears I'm gonna cry for you
My cryin's through I'm moving on
I don't regret and won't forget
A single thing that we went through
But there are the last tears I'm gonna cry for you
You take things so much easier than I do
And you could live your life without me if you had to
And you believe that in the end it all works out right
And I might if not for you
And if you ask one which one lives just alone for love
I do
There was a time when all signs pointed to the warm south
The planets all lined up and built a new house
And everything we talked about felt like a prophecy
And when you looked at me they all came true
And if you asked which one wants to go the distance
I do
I'm gonna rack my mind one last time until I cannot think
I'm gonna dip into your memory and take a good stiff drink
And when I'm drunk on the last drop of sadness about how we went wrong
I'm gonna play this song
Make some coffee black and strong
Give thanks for healing time
be on my side
i'll be on your side
there is no reason for you to hide
it's so hard staying here all alone
you could be taking me for a ride
she could drag me over the rainbow
send me away
down by the river
i shot my baby
down by the river
dead
take my hand
i'll take your hand baby
together we may get away
this much madness is too much sorrow
it's impossible to make it today
oh baby
she could drag me over the rainbow
send me away
down by the river
i shot my baby
down by the river
dead
be on my side
i'll be on your side
baby there ain't no reason for us to hide
it's so hard staying here all alone
you should be taking me for a ride
oh baby
she could drag me over the rainbow
and send me away
down by the river
i shot my baby
down by the river
i shot my baby
you take my hand
(down by)
i'll take your hand baby
(the river)
together we may get away
(i shot my baby)
this much madness is too much sorrow
(down by the river)
it's impossible to make it today
(i shot my baby)
this much madness is too much sorrow
(down by the river)
it's impossible to make it today
(i shot my baby)
down by the river
i left my anger in a river running highway 5
new hampshire, vermont, bordered by
college farms, hubcaps, and falling rocks
voices in the woods and the mountaintops
i used to search for reservations and native lands
before i realized everywhere i stand
there have tribal feet running wild as fire
some past life sister of my desire
jonas and ezekial hear me now
steady now and don't come out
i'm not ready for the dead to show it's face
whose turn is it anyway?
anyway?
now when i was young my people taught me well
give back what you take or you'll go to hell
it's not the devil's land, you know it's not that kind
every devil i meet becomes a friend of mine
every devil I meet is an angel in disguise
jonas and ezekial hear me now
steady now and don't come out
i'm not ready for the dead to show it's face
whose angel are you anyway?
white - chain - rope - fear
(hush my darling)
be still my dear
a bullet in the head, now he's dead
a friend of a friend, someone said
he was an activist with a very short life
i think there's a lesson here - he died without a fight
in the war over land where the world began
prophecies say it's where the world will end
but there's a tremor growing in our backyard
fear in our heads, fear in our hearts
prophets in the graveyard
jonas and ezekial hear me now
steady now and don't come out
i'm not ready for the dead to show it's face
whose turn is it anyway?
jonas and ezekial hear me now
steady now i feel your ghost about
i'm not ready for the dead to show it's face
whose angel are you anyway?
i said there's prophets in the graveyard
(now i walk in beauty)
prophets in the graveyard
(beauty is before me)
prophets in the graveyard
(beauty is behind me)
Hey kind friend don't know when I'll see you again on a ferry boat bound for
Victoria laying down to hide from the wind
Beg dipper hangin over the city you know everything now is different for me ain't no use in explainin the scenery
Hey kind friend won't you help me forget where I been
Help me remember who I am I was too late in Spokane
So I caught a ride through the Cascade range I saw the sun dying in Olympia running down on Capitol Lake
So I ask you for some relief and it's one true root that you bring to me 3am it's good company
Hey kind friend help me forget where I been Help me remember who I am
Hey kind friend I don't know when I'll see you again
It's OK friend So I'll meet you in New Orleans or I'll see you round cause
I've taken so many down, I've helped them all to dismount.
I've followed so many down, I take their hand me downs.
All with hope, all with hope that
Emptiness brings fullness and
Loss of love brings wholeness to us all.
Everything that I believe crawls from underneath the streets.
Everything I truly love comes from somewhere high above.
Everything that I believe is wrong with you is wrong with me.
Everything I truly love I love in you and I love in me.
So give me hope, give me hope that
Emptiness brings fullness and
Loss of love brings wholeness to us all.
Swear you can't swim the river,
I saw you running to jump in.
I swore I would never be your sinner,
Until I held your sin.
Now you ask me why I'm here.
The same as you, I'm scared - it's fear.
I've become the beggar now, you've become the saint somehow.
Twist the words and place the blame. Tell me now aren't we the same?
Tripping in our yellow feet, checking underneath our sheets,
For some hope, give me hope that
Emptiness brings fullness and
love is but a song we sing
and fear's the way we die
you can make the mountains ring
or make the angels cry
though the bird is on the wing
you may not know why
come on people now
smile on your brother
everybody get together
try to love one another right now
some may come and some may go
we will surely pass
when the one that left us here
returns for us at last
we are but a moment's sunlight
fading in the grass yeah
come on people now
smile on your brother
everybody get together
try to love one another right now
come on people now
smile on your brother
everybody get together
try to love one another right now
if you hear the song we sing
you will understand
you hold the key to love and fear
all in your trembling hand
just one key unlocks them both
it's there at your command
come on people now
smile on your brother
everybody get together
try to love one another right now
come on people now
smile on your brother
everybody get together
try to love one another right now
try to love one another right now
try to love one another right now
words and music c powers
You dug a well you dug it deep for every wife you buried you planted a cedar tree the best you ever had i stand where you stood i stand for the bad or good i am green you are wood the best he ever had i dig a well i dig it deep and for my only love i plant a cedar tree the best we ever had
I'm harboring a fugitive a defector of a kind she lives in my soul drinks of my wine and i'd give my last breath to keep us alive are they coming for us with cameras or guns we don't know which but we gotta run you say this is not what i bargained for so hide yourself for me all for me we swore to ourselves we'd go to the end of the world but i got caught up in whirl and the twirl of it all a day in the sun dancing alone baby i'm so sorry now now it's coming to you the lessons i've learned won't do you any good you've got to get burned the curse and the blessing they're one in the same baby it's all such a treacherous gain hide yourself from me i said hide yourself from me all for me i stood without clothes danced in the sand i was aching with freedom kissing the damned i said remember this as how it should be baby i said it's all in our hands got to learn to respect what we don't understand we are fortunate ones fortunate ones i swear so hide yourself for me i will hide myself for you all for you i stood
Remember everything I told you
Keep it in your heart like a stone
And when the winds have blown
The winds have blown things round and back again
What was once your pain will be your home
All around the table the white haired men have gathered
Spilling their sons' blood like table wine
Remember everything in its own time
The music whispers you in urgency
Hold fast to that language less connection
A thread of known that was unknown and unseen
Seen dangling from inside the fifth direction
Boys around the table mapping out their strategies
Kings all of mountains one day dust
A lesson learned a loving God and things in their strategies
Kings all of mountains one day dust
A lesson learned a loving God and things in their own time
In nothing more do I trust
We own nothing, nothing is ours
Not even love so fierce it burns like baby stars
But this poverty is our greatest gift
The weightlessness of us as things around begin to shift
Remember everything I told you
Keep it in your heart like a stone
And when the winds have blown things round and back again
What was once your pain will be your home
Everything in its own time
You wear the cloth of finest lands,
The touch of women the toil of hands.
Undress me now before I bend,
From the weight of everyman.
When I'm walking through this world,
I need to hold your hand.
Let me take you on this ride,
I hope you understand,
I'm not asking for a compromise.
You defend, exhume, begin again
It's the riddle of a skeleton.
We're all diseased so count the coupe,
I can't imagine stopping you.
When I'm walking through this world,
I need to hold your hand.
Let me take you on this ride,
I hope you understand,
I'm not asking for a compromise.
So the earth we scorch, we breathe,
Find some comfort on our knees.
You find your worth in words that wind,
Pleasures I don't comprehend.
When I'm walking through this world,
I need to hold your hand.
Let me take you on this ride,
I hope you understand,
indian legislation's on the desk of a do right congressman
and he don't know much about the issues so he picks up the phone
and asks the advice of the senator out in indian country
a darling of the energy companies ripping off
what's left of the reservation
i learned the safety rule
i don't know who to thank
don't stand between the reservation
and the corporate bank
they're sending federal tanks
it isn't nice but it's reality
bury my heart at wounded knee
i said deep in the earth
won't you cover me with pretty lies
bury my heart at wounded knee
we got these energy companies
who want to take the land
and we got churches by the dozens
trying to guide our hands
and turn our mother earth
over to pollution war and greed
no no
bury my heart at wounded knee
bury my heart at wounded knee
i said deep in the earth
bury my heart at wounded knee
won't you cover me with pretty lies
bury my heart at wounded knee
bury my heart at wounded knee
we got the federal marshalls
we got the covert spies
we got the liars by fire
and the fbi
they lie in court and get nailed
and still leonard peltier goes off to jail
(the bullets don't match the gun)
bury my heart at wounded knee
an eighth of the reservation
bury my heart at wounded knee
was transferred in secret
bury my heart at wounded knee
we got your murder and intimidation
bury my heart at wounded knee
my girlfriend anna may
talked about uranium
her head was full of bullets
and her body dumped
the fbi cut off her hands
and told us she died of exposure
to bury my heart at wounded knee
bury my heart at wounded knee
i said deep in the earth
bury my heart at wounded knee
won't you cover me with your pretty lies
bury my heart at wounded knee
bury my heart at wounded knee
bury my heart at wounded knee
talk about a revolution
they stole my land
they won't steal my soul
we had the gold rush wars
why didn't we learn to crawl?
and now our history gets written in a liar's scrawl
they tell me "don't be so uptight
i mean honey you can still be an indian
down at the y on saturday night''
bury my heart at wounded knee
bury my heart at wounded knee
i said deep in the earth
bury my heart at wounded knee
won't you cover me with your pretty lies
bury my heart at wounded knee
bury my heart at wounded knee
bury my heart
it was an eighth of the reservation
bury my heart
yeah was transferred in secret
bury my heart
got your murder, murder, murder and intimidation
bury me
bury me
bury me
bury my heart
bury my heart
bury my heart
bury my heart
indian legislation's on the desk of the do right congressman
now he don't know much about the issues so he picks up the phone
and asks the advice of the senator out in indian country
a darling of the energy companies their ripping off
what's left of the reservation
i learned the safety rule
i don't know who to thank
don't stand between the reservation
and the corporate bank
they're sending federal tanks
it isn't nice but it's reality
bury my heart at wounded knee
deep in the earth
i said cover me with pretty lies
bury my heart at wounded knee
they got these energy companies
who want to take the land
and they got churches by the dozens
trying to guide our hands
and turn our mother earth
over to pollution war and greed
well
bury my heart at wounded knee
bury my heart at wounded knee
i said deep in the earth
bury my heart at wounded knee
won't you cover me with your pretty lies
bury my heart at wounded knee
bury my heart at wounded knee
they got the federal marshalls
we get the covert spies
we get the liars by fire
we get the fbi
they lie in court and get nailed
and still leonard peltier goes off to jail
(the bullets don't match the gun)
bury my heart at wounded knee
an eighth of the reservation
bury my heart at wounded knee
it was transferred in secret
bury my heart at wounded knee
we got your murder and intimidation
bury my heart at wounded knee
my girlfriend anna may
talked about uranium
her head was full of bullets
and her body dumped
the fbi cut off her hands
and told us she died of exposure
yeah right
bury my heart at wounded knee
bury my heart at wounded knee
oh deep in the earth
bury my heart at wounded knee
won't you cover me with pretty lies
bury my heart at wounded knee
bury my heart at wounded knee
bury my heart at wounded knee
talk about a revolution
we had the gold rush wars
why didn't we learn to crawl?
and now our history gets written in a liar's scrawl
they tell me " honey you can still be an indian
down at the y on saturday night''
bury my heart at wounded knee
bury my heart at wounded knee
i said deep in the earth
bury my heart at wounded knee
and cover me with your pretty lies
bury my heart at wounded knee
bury my heart at wounded knee
bury my heart
it was an eighth of the reservation
bury my heart
it was transferred in secret
bury my heart
got your murder, murder, murder and intimidation
bury me
bury me
bury me
bury my heart
bury my heart
bury my heart
bury my heart
tonight i'll be sleepin on a mountain top
i got a billion stars for my witness
in the morning i go down and the sun comes up
and i take a drink from the bitterroot river
have you been lonely
yes i've been lonely
i've been lonely too
have you been lonely
yes i've been lonely
i've been lonely too
tonight i'll be sleepin on a mountain top
i got a billion stars for my witness
in the morning i go down and the sun comes up
i take a drink from the bitterroot river
have you been travelin'
yes i've been travelin'
i've been travelin' too
(that girl can play)
have you been travelin'
yes i've been travelin'
i've been travelin' too
(lordy help me (unknown))
tonight i'll be sleepin on a mountain top
i got a billion stars for my witness
in the morning i go down and the sun comes up
i take a drink from the bitterroot river
i take a drink from the bitterroot river
i take a drink from the bitterroot river
words and music by amy ray
"All Along the Watchtower" is a Bob Dylan song from 1968. The girls
have been doing this for years, and Amy kinda tends to improvise a
lot, so I'll just stick with the official Dylan transcription.
All Along the Watchtower.
"There must be some way out of here,"
Said the joker to the thief,
"There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.
Businessmen, they drink my wine; Plowmen dig my earth;
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."
"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."
All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went; Barefoot servants, too.
Outside in the distance, a wildcat did growl;
from the bowery to the brimstone
i tried to find your heart
with drugs of initiation
the bottom of a barrel that drops
i understand your causes
sympathize the motivation
but all the details of this war
are just self-infatuation
and it's 1 2 3
nothings for free
4 5 6
pick up the sticks and go home
manic blood runs thick my friend
are you looking for a clean escape
what's left when the locks have all been broken
young children of authority
now how long can you be agile
dancing between the alter and the mercy seat
yeah now here's a chance to make a choice
are you aware of the fire beneath your feet
1 2 3
nothings for free
4 5 6
pick up the sticks and go home
the basement lies within us
our fear comes through the door
now there's nothing left between us
as the fear becomes a roar
once that wheel is in motion
don't you lose what you have found
i'm talking about that burning wheel of tongues
everything that makes it go round and round
we're all born in the devils scorn
they want to see you die
i'm asking you are you true
everything they say is a lie
it's a lie
1 2 3
nothings for free
4 5 6
pick up the sticks and go
1 2 3
nothings for free
4 5 6
pick up the sticks and go
1 2 3
(we're all born)
nothings for free
(in the devils scorn)
1 2 3
(we're all born)
nothings for free
(in the devils scorn)
everything they say it's a lie
(we're all born)
it's a lie now
(in the devils scorn)
everything they say it's a lie
it's a lie now
pick up the sticks
(pick up the sticks)
pick up the sticks
(pick up the sticks)
pick up the sticks
(pick up the sticks)
pick up the sticks
and go home
When i let you go, i cursed myself with empty hands. strong enough to watch you walk, but not enough to understand. with spiteful eyes you burn for my grace. i was trying to stand outside of this, you were trying to save face.
You can say that i don't care, i don't care. you can hope that we still have something left to share. just between you, baby and me there's nothing there.
I finally found someone that i can hold. you ask me to defend myself, as if i shouldn't be so bold. get that look off of your face. i don't have the time, you don't have the place.
You can say that i don't care, i don't care. you can hope that we still have something left to share. just between you, baby and me there's nothing there.
What are you gonna do? I can't salvage any truth for you. Everybody else already knows and it hurts you to realize so leave well enough, enough alone:
You and me of the 10,000 wars,
dividing life into factions of pleasure and chores -
a bed to be made and a bed to lie in,
a hand in the darker side and our sights set on zion.
The heart of a skeptic and the mind of a child,
put my life in a box and let my imagination run wild
pour the cement for my feet.
the heart and the mind on a parallel course
never the two shall meet.
and, oh, the dissatisfied with the satisfied
everybody loves a melodrama
and the scandal of a lie -
still you held your arms open for the prodigal daughter
I see my eyes in your eyes through my eyes -
still waters.
Try making one and one make one
twist the shapes until everything comes undone
watch the wizard behind the curtain
the larger than life and the power of seeming certain.
The evil ego and the vice of pride
is there ever anything else that makes us take our different sides?
I wanted everything to feed me.
About as full as I got was of myself
and the upper echalons of mediocrity
after the battle and we're still around
everything once up in the air has settled down
sweep the ashes let the silence find us
a moment of peace is worth every war behind us.
I found the binding of the yoke
That connects us here, in this herd of hope
Escort me to your kingdom come
From the gallows' hold, and the things we've done
You stole so much, so much at times
Just being bad, like the books we read
The helplessness that you played upon
Was just tenderness, to disarm
She ushered in love, but it drove you mad
Not to have everything of your envisioning
She wandered in on the peace you lacked
Yeah and you're losing still, that life you could've had
Tell that story one more time for me
Of the baited fields just for the taking dear
Where you heard the hunter's call
But your discipline kept you from the fall
But oh, to hold that tenderness in these grubby hands
I'd shoot anything
And you laughed at me, but you know I'm right
So why do you claim the strength to put up a fight
And you hold your nightmares close from view
The horses going wild, under a breaking moon
There's no way the bridle ever fits the bride
I'm coming home with a stone, strapped onto my back.
I'm coming home with a burning hope turning all my blues to black.
I'm looking for a sacred hand to carve into my stone.
A ghost of comfort, angels breath - to keep this life inside my chest.
This world falls on me with hopes of immortality.
Everywhere I turn all the beauty just keeps shaking me.
I woke up in the middle of a dream, scared the world was too much for me.
Sejarez said, "don't let go, just plant the seeds and watch them grow."
I've slept in rainy canyon lands, cold drenched to my skin.
I always wake to find a face to calm these troubled lands.
This world falls on me with dreams of immortality.
Everywhere I turn all the beauty just keeps shaking me.
Running - end - earth - swimming - edge - sea - laughing - under - starry sky
This world was meant for me.
Don't bury me, carry me.
I wish I was a nomad, an Indian, or a saint.
The edge of death would disappear, leave me nothing left to taint.
I wish I was a nomad, an Indian, or a saint.
Give me walking shoes, feathered arms, and a key to heaven's gate.
Well, the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry anymore
'Cause when life looks like easy street, there is danger at your door
Now think this through with me, let me know your mind
Whoa oh, what I want to know is, are you kind
Now it's a buck dancer's choice, my friends, better take my advice
You know all the rules by now and the fire from the ice
Now will you come with me, won't you come with me?
Whoa oh, what I want to know, will you come with me?
Sister, well, I declare, have you seen the like
Their walls are built of cannon balls, their motto is ''Don't tread on me"
Come hear uncle John's band playing to the tide
Come with me or go alone, he's come to take his children home
It's the same story the crow told me, it's the only one he knows
Like the morning sun you come and like the wind you go
Ain't no time to hate, barely time to wait
Whoa oh, what I want to know, where does the time go?
I live in a silver mine and I call it beggar's tomb
I've got me a violin and I beg you call the tune
Anybody's choice, I can hear your voice
Whoa oh, what I want to know, how does the song go?
Come hear uncle John's band by the riverside
Got some things to talk about here beside the rising tide
Come hear uncle John's band, playing to the tide
Come on, come on or go alone, he's come to take his children home
Whoa oh, what I want to know, how does the song go?
Come hear uncle John's band by the riverside
Got some things to talk about here beside the rising tide
Come hear uncle John's band playing to the tide
Come on along or go alone, he's come to take his children home
Come hear uncle John's band by the riverside
(Brother, ain't no time to hate)
Got some things to talk about here beside the rising tide
(Sister, ain't no time to wait)
Come hear uncle John's band playing to the tide
Come on along or go alone, he's come to take his children home
Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh
I can go one day without calling
Two days without bawling
Three days without missing
But a lifetime of no kissing you
Is something that I just can’t do.
I wish I could be there to share the moon
I got more back for the breaking
More callous for making
A lifetime for the aching
I got no need to run this battery down.
I’m just trying to get the stains out.
I wish I could be there to share the moon.
Hey la la
I’m gonna love to you til it hurts
I don’t mind if I do
Hey la la
I’m gonna love you til it works
I’ve got no mind to lose
There’s one trash heap burning
Fireflies are returning
Nightfall is softly chirping
One trailer light is staying on til dawn
I wonder who it’s waiting on.
Hey la la
I’m gonna love to you til it hurts
I don’t mind if I do
Hey la la
I’m gonna love you til it works
It's a fish white belly lump in the throat razor on the wire skin and bone piss and blood in a railroad car 100 people gypsies queers and david's star this train is bound for glory measure the bones count the face pull out the teeth do you belong to the human race doctor doctor are you unkind do you shock the monkeys cover our eyes with clear blue skies this train is bound for glory here is a dancer who has no legs here is a teacher who has no face here is a runner who has no feet here is a healer who has no hands here is a builder who has no back here is a thinker who has no head here is a writer who has no voice these are the questions these are the answers stacked like wood this train is bound for glory these are the questions stacked like wood these are the answers here is potential gone for good
She won't recover from her losses,
She's not chosen this path, but she watches who it crosses
Maybe move to the right, maybe move to the left
So we can all see her pain she wears like a banner on her chest
And we all say it's sad, and we think it's a shame
And she's called to our attention, but we do not call her name,
The girl with the weight of the world in her hands.
We're busy with our happiness, busy with our plans
I wonder if alone she wants it taken from her hands
But if things didn't get any harder
She might miss her sacred chance to go a consecrated martyr,
The girl with the weight of the world in her hands.
I wonder which saint that lives inside a bead
will grant her consolation when she counts upon her need
It makes us all angry though we feign to care
But who will be the scale to weigh the cross she has to bear,
The girl with the weight of the world in her hands.
"Is the glass half-full or empty?" I ask her as I fill it
She said it doesn't really matter, pretty soon you're bound to spill it.
With the half logic language of the sermon she delivers
And the way she smiles so knowingly at me gives me the shivers
I pull the blanket higher when I'm finally safe at home
And she'll take a hundred with her, but she always sleeps alone,
Whatever it was, is wasn't manumission
To spill the blood, to pull the weed
You can bury the past, but it's a mausoleum
With the ghost of a fist that won't let us be
Can we bring it together,
Can we call from the mountain to the valley below?
Can we make it better,
Do we tether the hawk, do we tether the dove?
I kicked up the dirt, and I said to my neighbor
"We keep making it worse, we keep getting it wrong"
He tucked in his shirt, he stood a little bit straighter,
He said "We need a few less words dear, we need a few more guns."
But will it bring us together,
Can we call from the mountain to the valley below?
Can we make it better,
Do we tether the hawk, do we tether the dove?
Enduring love
Why so much and so strong, beyond this short existence?
So don't be still
You say there's a long line behind you
And it's hardly worth the mentioning
But I will
Cause we may flicker and fade,
But we never will be through with this
I see this world battered but not broken
There's a fallow heart, it's waiting on a sowing hand
You can grow what you want, But one day it's gonna rise up
So plant what you need to make a better stand
And we'll bring it together
And we'll call from the mountain to the valley below.
And we'll make it better
Let go of the hawk, we let go of the dove.
I sing to you, all you true believers
With the strength to see this and not be still.
I'm telling you now, find the hope that feeds you,
Kelly Mountain road saw a heavy load
With a sagging heart and a break apart
Voices in me stood as thick as thieves
With no sympathy for the beggars art
I have passed these pines 'bout a million times effortlessly
Now I grip the wheel fear is what I feel
At the slow unraveling of me
You tell me it's temporary it's a matter of time
By God don't you think I know it's in my mind
It's right over left and healing the then
I'll soon be to nothing but I don't know when
Well the way I flee on my crooked feet
Barn happy horse on a one-track course
Then I self despise cryin' out my eyes
'Cause the happy trail led me to remorse
But the road is long and the song is gone
I blow empty in my cicada shell
If I saw my choice I might find my voice
But I don't know when and I just can't tell
You tell me it's temporary just a matter of time
By God don't you think I know it's in my mind
It's right over left and healing the then
I'll soon be to nothing but I don't know when
Deep behind my face is a safer place
But old gears are hitched tight to the gate
It's a daily grind waiting to unwind
Till I hear that click that unlocks my fate
So tell me it's temporary it's a matter of time
By God don't you think I know it's in my mind
It's right over left and healing the then
I'll soon be to nothing but I don't know when
I'll soon be to nothing but I don't know when
I've seen the sun on a funeral, the full moon in a midday sky
Tactician politician hold his head and wonder why
I'm always struck that much harder by the power of suggestion
By now I know the answer's always in the question
Now that we're done with that why don't you warm the car
All of the fields are filled with fresh boys playing football
More than the weather chills, the bands practicing their drills
I've got to get back to something real with you
I had to call your parents to get your number again
I was either gonna be the prodigal or the banished friend
We were standing against an outside wall, I was afraid of what you'd say
It took me ten years to call you back but here we are today
Now that we're done with that why don't you warm the car
All of the fields are filled with fresh boys playing football
More than the weather chills, the bands practicing their drills
I've got to get back to something real with you
So life has brought you this: two marriages and three kids
And me life as slick as ice that finally hit the skids
You're as sweet as you ever were
A slight sickness of regret washes over me
And in the end that's all I get
Now that we're done with that why don't you warm the car
All of the fields are filled with fresh boys playing football
More than the weather chills, the bands practicing their drills
I've got to get back to something real
I've got to get back to something real
115 you are 17 Itchy trigger venomous
You growing longer
You growing strong
You shed your skin
Now shed this
Come on over baby
You tell me it's holy holy I don't know what that is
Come on over Let's call it the fullness of time I don't know what that is
Hey holy console me some power control me
Remorse it I force it can't free it so be it I'm speaking in tongues handling you I got religion now look at it
The days grow longer
As we grow stronger
So shed your skin baby Let it rip
Now tell me it's holy holy I don't know what that is I want to call it the fullness of time
But I don't know if it is
Hey holy console me some power control me
Remorse it I force it can't free it so be it I got the hangman I got Milagro I got the celebration too
The flesh is strong
The spirit stronger
So shed your skin baby
Let it through
You don't want me calling you up
All melancholy sick from love
You prefer it uncomplicated
Things are tricky now I bet you hate it
Your mind's eye finds the exit sign
And you're off in perfect fashion
And you run, that's all you've ever done
It's all you know to do
I can't hold that against you
And you'll flee cause you're born to be free
And if you go I'll understand
But you better get out while you can
The party's over, we had our fun
Flirting with madness a loaded gun
As much as nothing everything's changed
I'm soaking in it, it falls like rain
You seek the sun to dry off what's been done
You'll heat up every corner of the world
As you run, that's all you've ever done
It's all you know to do
I can't hold that against you
And you'll flee cause you're born to be free
And if you go I'll understand
But you better get out while you can
Can you keep this pace forever
I have never seen it done
Up deep burn all you leave behind you
You are the surface of my sun
I measure to what degree
I can shape up what's been forged in me
The cooper penny hissing in the pool
So much for wishes so much for cooling
Down this fire impossible desire
The further you get the more I'm drawn
And you run, that's all you've ever done
It's all you know to do
I can't hold that against you
And you'll flee cause you're born to be free
And if you go I'll understand
I had guards like watchdogs dogs in a manger i could feel the protection possession and anger and i drove out of there with no one behind me feeling funny and free all you pretty pretenders negligent vendors aren't you precious inside i have no need for anger with intimate strangers and i got nothing to hide i laughed as i said it this is my situation it's not pictures or privilege its just self preservation i don't want you to feel any obligation would it be so funny to be free all you pretty pretenders negligent vendors aren't you precious inside i have no need for anger with intimate strangers and i got nothing to hide we act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions (i remember you when we were shiny and new) of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes (now you guard your faith) cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver (temper your speed) it feels funny being free all you pretty pretenders negligent vendors aren't you precious inside i have no need for anger with intimate strangers
My place is of the sun and this place is of the dark
I do not feel the romance I do not catch the spark
I don't know when I noticed life was life at my expense
The words of my heart lined up like prisoners on a fence
The dreams came in like needy children tugging at my sleeve
I said I have no way of feeding you, so leave
But there was a time I asked my father for a dollar
And he gave it a ten dollar raise
When I needed my mother and I called her
She stayed with me for days
And now someone's on the telephone, desperate in his pain
Someone's on the bathroom floor doing her cocaine
Someone's got his finger on the button in some room
No one can convince me we aren't gluttons for our doom
But I tried to make this place my place
I asked for Providence to smile upon me with his sweet face
But I'll tell you
My place is of the sun and this place is of the dark
I do not feel the romance I do not catch the spark
My place is of the sun and this place is of the dark
(By grace, my sight grows stronger and I will not
be a pawn for the Prince of Darkness any longer)
Maybe there's no haven in this world for tender age
My heart beat like the wings of wild birds in a cage
My greatest hope my greatest cause to grieve
And my heart flew from its cage and it bled upon my sleeve
The cries of passion were like wounds that needed healing
I couldn't hear them for the thunder
I was half the naked distance between hell and heaven's ceiling
And he almost pulled me under
Now someone's on the telephone desperate in his pain
Someone's on the bathroom floor doing her cocaine
Someone's got his finger on the button in some room
No one can convince me we aren't gluttons for our doom
I tried to make this place my place
I asked for Providence to smile upon me with his sweet face
But I'll tell you
My place is of the sun and this place is of the dark
I do not feel the romance I do not catch of spark
My place is of the sun and this place is of the dark
(By grace my sight grows stronger, grows stronger)
I do not feel the romance I do not catch the spark
Now, everybody's looking for a little peace of mind
We're a generation running out of time
There's a bomb, there's a man, there's a gun in his hand, yeah
Well, nobody smiles at strangers, we're scared from birth
Afraid the man's gonna take us for all that we're worth
Strip us of our pride - make a strike from inside
(Come on and tell me)
How long will we be victims of fear
With a man and a gun and the "day after" fear
Jesus, smile down upon your children
Smile down upon your family
Now, even lovers have trouble at hand
What's your preference - where do you stand?
You get uptight about it, gonna fight about it
Gonna fight about love - that makes no sense to me
Wanting independence, separate but equal
Some are here, and others there
One more for the sequel to the heartache
How much more can we take?
(Won't you tell me)
How long will we be victims of fear
With a man and a gun and the "day after" fear
Jesus, smile down upon your children
Now we can say that nothing's lost and only change brings round the prophecy
Where now it's melting, the solid frost was once a veil on greener landscapes we would see
Beneath my surface the water's heating
And steam comes up and out the tears you see me shine
For every strange and bitter moment there was never a better time
For every pleasure exacts its pain
How you hurt me how you were good to me
Beneath my window a mournful train that makes me smile at my bad poetry
Beneath my surface a song is rising
It may be simple while it hides its true intent
We may be looking for our deliverance but it has already been sent
It's in the night fall when the light falls
And what you've seen isn't there anymore
It's in our blind trust that love will find us
Just like it has before
They're sending soldiers to distant places
X's and O's on someone's drawing board
Like green and plastic but with human faces
And they want to tell you it's a merciful sword
But with all the blood newly dried in the desert
Can we not fertilize the land with something else
There is no nation by god exempted
Lay down your weapons and love your neighbor as yourself
In the night fall when the light falls
And what you've seen isn't there anymore
It's through our blind trust that love will find us
Each time you'd pull down the driveway i wasn't sure when i would see you again yours was a twisted blind-sided highway no matter which road you took then oh you set up your place in my thoughts moved in and made my thinking crowded now we're out in the back with the barking dogs my heart the red sun your heart the moon clouded i could go crazy on a night like tonight when summer's beginning to give up her fight and every thought's a possibility and voices are heard but nothing is seen why do you spend this time with me maybe an equal mystery so what is love then is it dictated or chosen does it sing like the hymns of 1000 years or is it just pop emotion and if it ever was here and it left does it mean it was never true and to exist it must elude is that why i think these things of you but i could go crazy on a night like tonight when summer's beginning to give up her fight and every thought's a possibility and voices are heard but nothing is seen why do you spend this time with me maybe an equal mystery oh
Well I guess that I was lonely,
that's why I called you on the phone.
'Cause in a moment of forgiveness,
I didn't want to be alone.
And I guess that I was willin,
more than I ever was before.
'Cause in a moment of forgiveness,
I come a knockin at your door.
Baby I woke up cryin last night
just to realize that you were gone.
Has it been two long years without you?
When are you gonna come home?
I guess that I was hoping
that you'd finally understand,
and in a moment of forgiveness,
you'd reach out and take my hand.
Now baby I know you're not one
for bearing witness.
You told me that one wrong move
is gonna sell you out.
I see that you kept your word
And made it harder than it had to be.
Wish I could save you the trouble baby,
give you a little peace of mind.
Baby I woke up cryin last night
just to realize that you were gone.
Has it been two long years without you?
When are you gonna come home?
I guess that I was hoping
that you'd finally understand,
and in a moment of forgiveness,
The volunteers come for your prayers
and some souvenirs,
With ivory skin and boycott lessons
Year after year.
Well I'm tracing your face up in the space of the bottom bunk,
Oh Cordova.
Where I cried and I cried,
I knew I was trading on things that I didn't have,
The things that I didn't have.
Now you come to me
With revolution's infidelity,
With blacklisted friends and tupperware kin,
And your big history.
Well I'm tracing your face up in the space of the bottom bunk,
Oh Cordova.
Where I cried and I cried,
I knew I was trading on things that I didn't have,
The things that I didn't have.
I memorize the lullabies
of dwindling lives.
The lay of the land, the touch of each hand
We lose by and by.
I'm tracing your face up in the space of the bottom bunk,
Oh Cordova.
Where I cried and I cried,
I knew I was trading on things that I didn't have,
During the time of which I speak it was hard to turn the other cheek
To the blows of insecurity
Feeding the cancer of my intellect the blood of love soon neglected
Lay dying in the strength of its impurity
Meanwhile our friends we thought were so together
They've all gone and left each other in search of fairer weather
And we sit here in our storm and drink a toast
To the slim chance of love's recovery.
There I am in younger days, star gazing,
Painting picture perfect maps of how my life and love would be
Not counting the unmarked paths of misdirection
My compass, faith in love's perfection
I missed ten million miles of road I should have seen
Meanwhile our friends we thought were so together
Left each other one by one in search of fairer weather
And we sit here in our storm and drink a toast
To the slim chance of love's recovery.
Rain soaked and voice choked like silent screaming in a dream
I search for our absolute distinction
Not content to bow and bent
To the whims of culture that swoop like vultures
Eating us away, eating us away
Eating us away to our extinction
Oh how I wish I were a trinity, so if I lost a part of me
I'd still have two of the same to live
But nobody gets a lifetime rehearsal, as specks of dust we're universal
To let this love survive would be the greatest gift we could give
Tell all the friends who think they're so together
That these are ghosts and mirages, these thoughts of fairer weather
Guess i wasn't the best one to ask me myself with my face pressed up against love's glass to see the shiny toy i've been hoping for the one i never can afford the wide world spins and spits turmoil and the nations toil for peace but the paws of fear upon your chest only love can soothe that beast and my words are paper tigers no match for the predator of pain inside her i say love will come to you hoping just because i spoke the words that they're true as if I've offered up a crystal ball to look through where there's now one there will be two i was born under the sign of cancer like brushing cloth i smooth the wrinkles for an answer i close my eyes and wish you fine (i'm always closing my eyes wishing i'm fine) even though i know you're not this time (even though i'm not this time) i say love will come to you hoping just because i spoke the words that they're true as if i've offered up a crystal ball to look through where there's now one there will be two dodging your memories a field of knives always on the outside looking in on other's lives i say love will come to you hoping just because i spoke the words that they're true as if i've offered up a crystal ball to look through where there's now one there will be two and i wish her insight to battle love's blindness strength from the milk of human kindness a safe place for all the pieces that scattered learn to pretend there's more than love that matters
Back in the long stretch of loneliness
I have come to call a living,
I'm getting something for all this love's labor,
even when I am forgetting.
Oh we oh oh little perennials
where'd you come from?
Daughter of my father's second cousin,
loyalties, I got em by the dozen.
We share a past, we share a blood relation
and that's as good as an invitation.
Oh we oh oh little perennials
where'd you come from?
I'm in the North Carolina Mountains,
just to the west of where I met my calling.
If you look south to the foothills of these mountains rising,
that's the place where it feels good falling.
That's the place that I know.
I look for words to fill the empty spaces,
all the life revealed in these back stages.
I reach for names like little puzzle pieces;
oh perennial, come to me.
Oh we oh oh little perennials
Sticks and stones battle zones a single light bulb on a single thread for the black sirens wail history fails rose-colored glass begins to age and crack while the politicians shadowbox the power ring in an endless split decision never solve anything from a neighbor's distant land i heard the strain of the common man let it be me (this is not a fighting song) let it be me (not a wrong for a wrong) let it be me, if the world is night shine my life like a light well the world seems spent and the president has no good idea of who the masses are well i'm one of them and i'm among friends trying to see beyond the fences of our own backyard i've seen kingdoms blow like ashes in the winds of change but the power of truth is the fuel for the flame so the darker the ages get there's a stronger beacon yet let it be me (this is not a fighting song) let it be me (not a wrong for a wrong) let it be me, if the world is night shine my life like a light in the kind word you speak in the turn of the cheek when your vision
It's dark at four PM in Leeds the steeples pierce the skylight till the last of it bleeds
The absent sound of another day as it recedes into the shadows until it's nothing
Fax papers slipped under the hotel room door like food for the prisoner or the prospect to the whore
Well fed and halfway drunk I ache myself for more until I'm shadows of myself until I'm nothing
Sixteen black churches burning on the TV all the way from Texas to Tennessee
a politician locks my eye and says to me there is no crisis here there's no conspiracy
I crave inertia every move made so I can stop
Whatever this madness is in me spinning like a top on a bed of anxiety
over a deep dark drop down into nothingness into withoutyouness
Was it ever so evil creep like ivy, toe hold on the stronger half of nature's dichotomy
Beating back a path through nothing more than pure insistence
Until here becomes the distance
Hold my head love I'm sick tonight find the open hole and press your finger
there will all your might before the last ounce of my spirit bleeds
Jet fuel and traffic lines
Pulling up to the delta signs
Distant shape of my hometown
Black stain where the wheels touch down
I pick up the morning news
I pass the man who's never shined my shoes
Through security and to the train
That will take me to the aeroplane
Count the miles on the highway
The sum of all my days
There's a postcard, there's a call
And there's a picture for your bedroom wall
But do you ever wonder through and through?
Who's that person standing next to you?
And after all the nights apart
Is there a home for a traveling heart
But if I weren't leaving you
I don't know what I would do
But the more I go, the less I know
Will the fire still burn on my return?
Keep the path lit on the only road I know
Honey, all I know to do is go
A cup of coffee and my bags are packed
The same vow not to look back
Familiar emptiness inside
As the distances grow wide
And though I vow to memorize
The last look in your loving eyes
It's here dusk and there dawn
Oh it's like a curtain getting slowly drawn
But if I weren't leaving you
I don't know what I would do
But the more I go, the less I know
Will the fire still burn on my return?
Keep the path lit on the only road I know
Honey, all I know to do is go
But if I weren't leaving you
I don't know what I would do
But the more I go it seems the less I know
Will the fire still burn on my return
Keep the path lit on the only road I know
I don't know if it was real or in a dream lately waking up i'm not sure where i've been there was a table set for six and five were there i stood outside and kept my eyes upon that empty chair and there was steam on the windows from the kitchen laughter like a language i once spoke with ease but i'm made mute by the virtue of decision i choose most of your life goes on without me oh the fear i've known that i might reap the praise of strangers and end up on my own all i've sown was a song but maybe i was wrong i said to you the one gift which i'd adore unwrap a package of the next 10 years unfolding but you told me if i had my way i'd be bored right then i knew i loved you best born of your scolding when we last talked we were lying on our backs looking up at the sky through the ceiling i used to lie like that alone out on the driveway trying to read the greek upon the stars the alphabet of feeling oh i knew back then it was a calling that said if joy then pain the sound of the voice these years later is
You said the world was magic i was wide-eyed and laughing we were dancing up to the bright side forget about your ego forget about your pride and you will never have to compromise but you were only joking we talked about our mothers kissed the wounds of our fathers i could've been your sister i would've been your brother you kissed me like i was a soldier heading for war i'm a dying man but i don't know what for but you were only joking you were only joking brother gravel and glass on the bottom of my feet i bruised my heels on the swollen street we were girls in bars we were boys on the town bumping like a pinball off a careless crowd you said good friends are hard to come by i laughed and bought you a beer 'cause it's too corny to cry well sentiment given and sentiment lost you shook it off with a smirk and a toss and you were only joking you were only joking brother
It's alright forty days of rain my skin stretched our from the growing pain
I'd be nice to have an explanation, but it's alright
And it's alright if you hate that way, hate me cause I'm different, hate me cause I'm gay
Truth of the matter come around one day so it's alright
I look at this lifeline stretched way all across my hand
I look at the burned out empty like a plague across the land
And for everything I learn there are two I don't understand
That's why I'm still on a search through the weather strewn church I'm doing the best
I can and it's alright
And it's alright though we worry and fuss, we can't get over the hump or get over us
It seems easier to push than to let go and trust but it's alright
When we get a little distance some things get clearer
Give em the space our hearts grow nearer I ran as hard as I could and still ended up here
but it's alright I look at this lifeline stretched way all across my hand
I look at the fires of hatred burning up the bounty of this beautiful land
I know I'm small in a way but I know I'm strong
And it's my thirst that brought me to the water when I give it all up then she carries me on and it's alright
Yeah it's alright
And it's alright though I feel afraid my plans in pieces my plans mislaid
It's the will of the way the will of the way the will of the only way
You followed me this far, did you find out what's inside? can you tell me what I'm doing? is it something i should hid? cause i don't know for sure, i don't wanna find out what i left there for.
I'm not scared and i'm not lonely. i'm not saving all my money of my breath. i'm not looking for an answer, i'm not asking anyone to second guess.
You told me all your secrets, so i filled you up with lies. now i'm living honestly, because i said goodbye. i can't go home anymore, i don't wanna find out what i left there for.
I'm not scared and i'm not lonely. i'm not saving all my money of my breath. i'm not looking for an answer, i'm not asking anyone to second guess.
I was losing all my senses, i was losing all control, it was getting so offensive, now you want me back for more, i just won't go.
If you think you know the answers, then you've got a lot of gall, cause it gives you satisfaction, knowing nothing at all. i don't care anymore, i don't wanna find out what i left there for.
Hey, jesus, it's me. i don't usually talk to you but my baby's gonna leave me, and there's something you must do. i am not your faithful servant, i hang around sometimes with a bunch of your black sheep, but if you make my baby stay, i'll make it up to you and that's a promise i will keep, hey, jesus, it's me. i'm the one who talked to you yesterday and i asked you please, please for a favor but my baby's gone away, went away anyway and i don't really think it's fair, you've got the power to make us all believe in you and then we call you in our despair, and you don't come through. hey, jesus, it's me, i'm sorry. i don't remember all i said, i had a few, no, too many and they went straight to my head, made me feel like i could argue with god but you know, it's easy for you, you got friends all over the world, you had the whole world waiting for your birth but now i ain't got nobody, i don't know what my life's worth. i'm not gonna call on you any more. i'm sure you've got a million things to do, all i was
A hard knock
A cold clock
Ticking off my time
A long look
But no luck
Couldn't seem to find
Or unwind
Into peace of mind
While I was trying
A quick glance
A big chance
My heart beat like a drum
I saw you
And I knew
Chances just don't come
Round again
Not like this
First a laugh
Then a kiss
And I'm free in you
I've got no worries on my mind
I know what to do
That's to treat you right
And love you kind
Thank you ever on my mind
Love is just like breathing
When it's true
And I'm free in you
The lost time
And self pride
Are my big mistakes
A clear voice
A bad choice
Sounding like an ache
In my day
Not too bad
But too real
To go away
But now I'm free in you
I've got no worries on my mind
I know what to do
That's to treat you right
And love you kind
Thank you ever on my mind
Love is just like breathing
When it's true
And I'm free in you
And I don't know
How you show
Such gentle disregard
For the ugly in me
That I see
That for so long
I took so hard
(I took so hard)
And I truly believe
(I truly believe)
That you see the best in me
(That you see the best in me)
I'm in love
We all love
And that thought
Sets me free
Free in you
Got no worries on my mind
I know what to do
That's to treat you right
And love you kind
Thank you ever on my mind
Love is just like breathing
When it's true
And I'm free in you
Fly away little bird
Any place in this open mouthed world
Begs to be fed like a bed that beckons you, but you won't rest
Everyone's got a need to go
Most of us stick with our row to hoe
But not you, you're the black crow
With a straight line, and no time
For the birds of prey who wreck your nest
Twice your size steal your best
They set you on this course of your collision
I am a stop along your way
I am the words you'll never say
I crossed the great beyond of fear
I opened my eyes and saw us there, what a view
You went there too
Fly away little bird
Find the song in you that no one's heard
Strenghthen your wings as you sing your solo flight
Through this short life
Everyone's got a deep regret
We try to ground ourselves to forget
But your race to the end is neck and neck
You love them, you love them not
The birds of prey who wreck your nest,
Twice your size steal your best
They set you on this course of your collision
I am a stop along your way
I am the words you'll never say
I crossed the great beyond of fear
Opened my eyes and saw us there, what a view
And you went there too
But all along your chosen path are
Window panes and sheets of glass
That you won't see
You fly too fast
One day it will be over
Fly away little bird
The saddest song I ever heard
Was the one I wrote you in my heart
She's got a case against me a jury of my peers
The rage of the righteous screaming in her ears I'm not dignified anymore can't say I didn't call
When I say I love you she don't hear me anymore
Don't give that girl a gun I made a bad connection she says I went astray
Jumped ship abandoned my post I didn't think I lost my way
But oh how the mighty I saw her crack a smile I don't got a chance for redemption
She don't believe in the miracle mile
Take the first shot baby it'll be real clean I'm your girl strong and mean
Take a second shot baby it'll be real cool I'm your fool
Don't give that girl a gun I said hold me closer cause something's happening
Why can't we come together?
She said, "I doubt we ever will again."
We talked up all night and came to no conclusion
We started a fight that ended in silent confusion
And as we sat stuck you could hear the trash truck
Making its way through the neighborhood
Picking up the thrown out different from house to house
We get to decide what we think is no good
We're sculpted from youth, the chipping away makes me weary
And as for the truth it seems like we just pick a theory
The one that justifies our daily lives
And backs us with quiver and arrows
To protect openings cause when the warring begins
How quickly the wide open narrows
Into the smallness of our deconstruction of love
We thought it was changing, but it never was
It's just the same as it ever was
A family of foxes came to my yard and dug in
I looked in a book to see what this could possibly mean
Cause there is fate in the breeze and signs in the trees
Possible tragic events
When forces collide with the damage strewn wide
And holes blasted straight through the fence
The sky starts to crash the rain on the roof starts to drumming
And laid out like cash your take on my list of shortcomings
The show starts to close, I know how this goes
The plot a predictable showing
And though it seems grand it's just one speck of sand
And back to the hourglass we're going
Back to the smallness of our deconstruction of love
We thought it was changing, but it never was
I heard that you were drunk and mean
Down at the dairy queen
There's just enough of you in me
For me to have sympathy
And take it in stride
I know I had mine
And you were as kind
I am told
Ain't it funny how we lose one day
And a lifetime
Slips away
I'm looking back on us that way
Something I
Never thought I'd say
I take it in stride
I know I had mine
It was good for a time
I am told
It was good for a time
I am told
The love you gave was not for free
But the price
Was truly fair
I never felt so glad to be
So well spent
So beyond repair
I take it in stride
At least you were mine
If not for all the time
Enough to hold
Now take good care that you are true
You said you found it
Hard to do
And find that bit of faith that sets you free
Having everything to prove
You take it in stride
And know you got mine
And it's good for a lifetime
Or more
I love you
I love you more and more
I'm sittin in Darwin's theory
You're down in the 48 I'm practicing politics
You're practicing guitar and staying out late
How did we get so turned around
Why did we make it so hard
Can't we cut it out while it's tender
Give us something good to remember
Hey my my my rock star I saw your feet leave the ground
You said all I want to be is loud I was ushering your friends in I was trying to clear the aisles
So how did you get so turned around
Why do you make it so hard
Why can't you cut it out I'm tender
Give me something good to remember
Cut it out cut it all out
So it's Alaska in the summertime
In the wintertime I'm free
But the days get short cold and wasted
Nowhere is warm enough for me
Baby you tell me what happened
How did I make it so hard
Can't we cut it out while it's tender
Give me something good to remember
All of my days have been misspent
Stuffing out the sofa and the antenna's bent
Inside my heart's bustin' out at the seams
I work for the impossible American dream
I got a job at the grocery store
A few bucks an hour and not much more
The world comes in just to take things away
And eat it all up and then they sleep into day
I try not to care I would lose my mind
Running 'round the same thing time after time
Only two things bound to soothe my soul cold beer and remote control
Once upon a time I was nobody's fool
Two jobs and showing up for school
I guess it comes apart so little by little
You don't know you're there till you're stuck in the middle
So I try not care I would lose my mind
Running 'round the same thing time after time
Only two things bound to soothe my soul cold beer and remote control
Sit down the room is dark the blurry graffiti on the benches across at the public park
The plastic's black and buttoned the haze is blue
And all I want is nothing to do
'Cause it's a long walk to the bus stop
It's a long wait for the turning clock
A two-tired car sitting up on the blocks
And things I put aside like that pile of rocks
I try not to care I would lose my mind
Running 'round the same thing time after time
Only two things bound to soothe my soul cold beer and remote control
I try not to care I would lose my mind
Running 'round the same thing time after time
Only two things bound to soothe my soul
I'm trying to tell you something about my life
Maybe give me insight between black and white
The best thing you've ever done for me
Is to help me take my life less seriously, it's only life after all
Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable
And lightness has a call that's hard to hear
I wrap my fear around me like a blanket
I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it, I'm crawling on your shore.
I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There's more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine.
I went to see the doctor of philosophy
With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee
He never did marry or see a B-grade movie
He graded my performance, he said he could see through me
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, got my paper
And I was free.
I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There's more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine.
I stopped by the bar at 3 a.m.
To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend
I woke up with a headache like my head against a board
Twice as cloudy as I'd been the night before
I went in seeking clarity.
I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There's more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine.
I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There's more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine.
We go to the bible, we go through the workout
We read up on revival and we stand up for the lookout
There's more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in a crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine
I wasn't looking ot shift my direction
My eyes straight ahead hands ten and two
The gravity of our first connection
Veering off the road and into you
All the people drive by slowly gawking at the scene
Of the smoldering inevitable spark and gasoline
All the way I met you head on full speed
At the heart the blue flames burns
All the way I took the crash course impact
But have I learned all that I'm supposed to learn
No amount of th playing safe could save me from this day
The head seeking path of my trajectory
Didn't we cooly divest of predestination
Slamming into futures we can't see
I know what can happen when there's more than meets teh eye
But there's no way to avoid it just get in the car and drive
All the way I met you head on full speed
At the heart the blue flame burns
All the way the crash course impact
But have I learned all that I'm supposed to learn
It makes me laugh talking over tea
When I can still smell the smoke on my sleeve
Steaming like gunsmoke the wreckage of our past
The scene of a crime I still can't leave
Oh you and me, we should let well enough be
But each revisitation points to clues
There's the oilslick of uncertainty
And warning signs back there we didn't use
At least we laugh about it now how we escaped alive
I am an only child born of the wild riddled to spend my time defending my land you are my only one born in the sun riddled to spend your time defending my plan dead dog on the highway median cats are growling at me i turn my lights on brighter counting through the night ride one more life for the taker chickenman one more song for the maker chickenman on the road to Athens i saw a dead deer on the highway i slipped into a desert five prairie dogs and a rabbit i was running down on queen street i saw a woman on the sidewalk she was beaten by a stranger danger danger danger one more life for the taker chickenman chicken-man chickenman hold my hand one more life forthe maker hold my hand chickenman i was on the road to Austin i met a man on the highway he sold me junk and conversation he was wise and dirty from the wather i said darkness into darkness all the carnage of my journeys makes it hard to be living he said it's a long road to be forgiven one more life for the taker chickenman chickenman chickenman hold my hand one more song for the maker chickenman chickenman chickenman hold my hand i am an only child born of the wild riddled to spend my time defending my land you are my only one born in the sun riddled to spend you time defending my plan i went looking for a car found myself beneath the stars i went looking for a girl found a man and his world chickenman chickenman chickenman hold my hand i am an only child hold my hand chickenman chickenman chickenman hold my hand
I am sorry that I set my sights on the things I read
Something meant for your husband maybe you left under the bed
Once upon a love those words blew free and secret but the pages lay around
Drifted to the hands of the publisher and the greedy generations on down
Burn all the letters (someone is always watching)
The government's on the phone (whether openly or secretly)
Burn all the letters (breathe life into your story)
Send them on to a safer home (burn it to secrecy)
Burn all the letters brand them in before you go
Soldiers are coming to plunder but there are some things they will never know
We made our love out of dignity, we dug our nails in the dirt
Hung out towel soaked souls out on the line we loved so hard that it hurt
To ease my pain I took a pen and paper, incarnate came the bleeding
Send it back before the public eye perverts it in the reading
Burn all the letters (someone is always watching)
The government's on the phone (whether openly or secretly)
Burn all the letters (breathe life into your story)
Send them on to a safer home (burn it into secrecy)
Burn all the letters from you to me
They're coming to take what they can but they cannot read
Beauty Queen Sister
-Amy Ray
Everybody loves the beauty queen sister
But she always got the broken heart
'Cause she work hard to keep what God gave her
But the devil he's just pulling it apart
Hang on tight
Hang on tight now
Mama's got a friend name Monkeyman
With a two-seater bike
And a tattoo stand
He's gonna take me for that ride
He knows I've been losing ground most of my life
Hang on tight
Hang on tight now
Daddy prayed so hard
That Jesus came down and took him
Left me speaking in tongues
And hungry for something
So I fed the family, I changed out the sparks
But every day I gained, another fell apart
Hang on tight now
Hey little sister, I dig it okay
Looking for the fountain of love
Where the wild heart riegns
And the knife draws blood
And beauty is redeemed
But Cherry and Dallas won't ever be the same
Pony watched Johnny die
nothing gold can stay*
And those street kids and beauty queens
They don't stand a chance
So hang on tight...
Monkeyman says draw your picture
Give it some ink, hear the needle whisper
For all the broken hearts and the passing fancies
Pull the inside out, when you can
Hang on tight
Oooooooo
Oooooooo
Oooooooo
Dust in our eyes our own boots kicked up
Heartsick we nursed along the way we picked up
You may not see it when it's sticking to your skin
But we're better off for all that we let in
Lost friends and loved ones much too young
So much promises and work left undone
When all that guards us is a single centerline
And the brutal crossing over when it's time
Oooooooo
(I don't know where it all begins)
Oooooooo
(And I don't know where it all will end)
Oooooooo
(We're better off for all that we let in)
One day those toughies will be withered up and bent
The father son the holy warriors and the president
With glory days of put up dukes for all the world to see
Beaten into submission in the name of the free
We're in a nevolution I have heard it said
Everyone's so busy now but do we move ahead
The planets hurting and atoms splitting
And a sweater for your love you sit there knitting
Oooooooo
(I don't know where it all begins)
Oooooooo
(And I don't know where it all will end)
Oooooooo
(We're better off for all that we let in)
See those crosses on the side of the road
Tied with ribbons in the medium
They make me grateful I can go this far
Lay me down and never wake me up again
Kat writes a poem and she sticks it on my truck
We don't believe in war and we don't believe in luck
The birds were calling to her what were they saying
As the gate blew open the tops of the trees were swaying
I've passed the cemetery walk my dog down there
I read the names in stone and say a silent prayer
When I get home you're cooking supper on the stove
And the greatest gift of life is to know love
Oooooooo
(I don't know where it all begins)
Oooooooo
(And I don't know where it all will end)
Oooooooo
From the bowery to the brimstone, I tried to find your heart.
With drugs of initiation, bottom of the barrel that drops.
I understand your causes, sympathize the motivation.
But all the details of this war are just self-infatuation.
1 2 3
Nothings for free
4 5 6
Pick up the sticks and go home.
Manic blood runs thick my friend, are you looking for a clean escape?
What's left when the locks have all been broken, young children of authority?
How long can you be agile, dancing between the alter and the mercy seat?
Here's a chance to make a choice, are you aware of the fire beneath your feet?
1 2 3
Nothings for free
4 5 6
Pick up the sticks and go home.
The basement lies within us, the fear comes through the door
There's nothing left between us, the fear becomes a roar.
Once that wheel is in motion, don't you lose what you have found.
I'm talking about that burning wheel of tongues, everything that makes it go around.
We're all born in the devils scorn, they want to see you die.
Are you true? Everything they say is a lie.
1 2 3
Nothings for free
4 5 6
Yes it's true I've gotten very moody over you
Don't think I don't sense your caution way across the room
Or across the phone lines, big black ocean, or conversation brief
We can't find a clear connection, and I can't get relief
Why don't we both agree we're both afraid and too afraid to say
If I say count to three and move toward me, would you meet me half the way
There are a thousand things about me I want only you to know
But I can't do it alone, you've got to show
While you occupy me I command my dreams each day
To bring you in me even thinly as the morning chases you away
I half believe if I just picture us we will come true
Wishful thinking or my dreams sinking half depends on you
Show me you are fully alive
If you want to fly you take this dive
If you want to kiss, kiss for real
I'll give you back everything you feel
Drive in space that peaceful place
You'd be my secret sharer
Front and back and all around the thin margin of error
Move too fast or move too or somewhere in between
Navigate the perfect distance so your getaway is clean
Why don't we both agree we're both afraid and too afraid to say
If I say count to three and move toward me would you meet me half way
There are a thousand things about me I want only you to know
Subject: Cover: White House Blues.
"White House Blues" is a song by Atlanta singer/songwriter Caroline
Aiken. The girls have been doing it now and then since 1987. When
they first started doing the song, they did it as Caroline wrote it,
but, after a while, they re-wrote the third verse to make it more
topical. I've heard it at least twice in the past two years, but I
don't remember whether they used Caroline's third verse, or the one
they reworked in 1988, or if they wrote a whole new third verse, as
the 1988 one is kinda dated. Anyway...
White House Blues.
I wrote a letter to my senator
It came back "The Address Unknown"
Put a call in to the President
He wouldn't come to the phone
Now, how in the hell can a person
Feel safe and secure at home
When all the decisions are being made
By big boys getting stoned?
-Chorus-
Now, I've been listening and watching
It seems like something's going to give, yeah
I can't seem to find a groove
Something's gone wrong around here.
I took a train to the White House
Wrote this song on the way
Knocked at the Oval Office
I was sure what I had to say
They looked at me kinda funny
Asked me what group I was with
I said I've come on my own
To represent the group that don't take no shit
-Chorus-
(Caroline's 3rd verse)
Hey, Ronnie's taking time
We know that things ain't fine
Been sweating in your seat
*From the weapons scandal heat
You know that I love my country
But how can we get ahead?
Take your thumb out of my pie
Stick it somewhere else instead
(The girls' 3rd verse, c.1988)
Now, Jimmy Swaggart is taking time
We know that things ain't fine
Been sweating in your seat
*From the sex scandal heat
Think of that woman down in New Orleans
And what was in your head
Did you think you could save her soul
By getting into her bed?
"What Was Really Me" is an Emily Salier song from around 1987. The
version I'm transcribing is from Carboro, North Carolina, on 21 March
1988.
What Was Really Me.
I should have never crossed your path
Funny how the things you want the most
Should soon be taken back
Slap my own hands like a child
Stealing from the candy store
I think I've taken to your smile
And I hunger for your laugh
Do the craziest things like look around
When I know you're nowhere near me
Break my back on a song
Though I know you're not there to hear it
Unanswered questions lying on the coffee table
From a song I haven't finished since last summer
Because I never could decide how much was gin
And how much the sea
Or other incidentals clouding what was really me
Everything I am is bare feet and burning sand
Waiting for the calm cool hand of the sea
A madman of emotions waiting for the drug effect
Of the reason and the intellect to comfort me
Half the time I love you like I love the fall's first breeze
And then you seem as distant to me as the skeletons of trees
Far away outside my window
But inside I think of you
As if I thouht hard enough I'd know which way to turn
And what to do.
I'm quite sure I'll be alright
We all live with some distraction
It's just too bad mine will hang around
All day and night
Like an uninvited guest
You can't turn away, try hard as you might
Lord knows, I've tried
I might let it go and take a long long run
Quit my job and join the coastline baking in the sun
Welcome me to the city of angels,
devil prophets still hold my hand.
I walked your stillborn streets for hours,
ethnic echoes spitting out their trials.
I'll be the first to praise the sun,
the first to praise the moon,
the first to hold the lone coyote,
the last to set it free.
Welcome me to a haven given,
it's well received into my open arms.
I ran in my sleep through shaking tremors,
I had the splitting earth echoing in my ears.
I'll be the first to praise the sun,
the first to praise the moon,
the first to hold the lone coyote,
the last to set it free.
Welcome me to the city of angels,
there's a devil monkey laying on our backs.
Where's the heart, where's the bullet for breaking.
Somebody give me a weapon,
a pacifying weapon.
I'll be the first to praise the sun,
the first to praise the moon,
the first to hold the lone coyote,
My, my... how time flies.
First time I met you - had to shade my eyes.
Cuz staring into the sun can make a girl blind.
Now here we sit in a shady spot.
Got what I wanted, and I want what I got...
But through the will of my own,
I just found my way home.
Here is what I learned about you.
You set the sun and you hung the moon.
Mid October or the month of June,
Temperatures rise and fall,
We get to feel it all.
Sometimes I can't tell
You're open like a book or shut like a shell.
But if I hold you to my ear,
I can hear the whole world.
Dark stories of a distant past
Our time created in a single blast...
You like to laugh at me because I'm serious... serious
Yes it's true...
But, Here is what I learned about you.
You set the sun and you hung the moon.
Mid October or the month of June, temperatures rise and fall,
We get to feel it all. We get to feel it all. We get to feel it all.
We get to feel it all.
Time waits for no one...
So I'm remembering that day in the sun.
How I was thinking that you needed time to cool down.
Circumstances make us tired and colder...
That's my coat thrown around your shoulder
And I know you'll give it back to me if I need it...
I believe it...
Here is what I learned about you.
You set the sun and you hung the moon.
Mid October or the month of June, temperatures rise and fall...
Here is what I learned about you.
You set the sun and you hung the moon.
Mid October or the month of June, temperatures rise and fall,
The girl's known trouble the wind's to blame it blew her to anytown USA and that's my middle name
And where we go remains nameless a motion picture alive and frameless
And we are together finally the dog caught up with the rabbit is laughing hysterically
And we are together you and me yeah
Got that sadness twinkles like a witch conjure a love spell I'm gonna give up the five-year itch
Low to the ground high in the holler in any old February hot under the collar
And we are together finally the dog caught up with the rabbit is laughing hysterically and we are together you and me yeah
The setting sun at sadness beach just in view and out of reach
Resign myself to solitude when love is hard to get and rude
And though I said I did not care
It was way before we'd gotten there
Winded by the fruitless chase until I saw you face to face
Thought I knew my mind like the back of my hand,
The gold and the rainbow, but nothing panned out as I planned.
And they say only milk and honey's gonna make your soul satisfied!
Well I better learn how to swim
Cause the crossing is chilly and wide.
Twisted guardrail on the highway, broken glass on the cement
A ghost of someone's tragedy
How recklessly my time has been spent.
And they say that it's never too late, but you don't get any younger!
Well I better learn how to starve the emptiness
And feed the hunger
Up on the watershed, standing at the fork in the road
You can stand there and agonize
Till your agony's your heaviest load.
You'll never fly as the crow flies, get used to a country mile.
When you're learning to face the path at your pace
Every choice is worth your while.
Well there's always retrospect to light a clearer path
Every five years or so I look back on my life
And I have a good laugh.
You start at the top, go full circle round
Catch a breeze, take a spill
But ending up where i started again makes me wanna stand still.
Stepping on a crack, breaking up and looking back
Every tree limb overhead just seems to sit and wait.
War rugs in the hallway
Prayer rugs on the wall
Who's walkin' tall?
I should be kneelin'
[Bridge]
Soldier girl, oh, soldier boy
Tell me what to say
When I see you at Christmas leave
Tattooed and hazed
[Chorus]
Oh, we're all growin' up together
We're all makin' a mark on it
We're all damnin' the consequences
I want to understand
The soul you have in there
Young Egypt seized the moment
And brought that bastard down
You've got technology
And you've got archeology
We treated you like hunters
Until you kicked the goal
Now we're claimin' you for our team
'Cause what do we know?
Oh, we're all growin' up together
We're all watchin' the video
We're all damnin' the consequences
I want to understand
The soul you have in there
[Instrumental Interlude]
Soldier boy, oh, soldier girl
Tell me what to say
When I see you at Christmas leave
Oh, we're all growin' up together
We're all takin' it pass or fail
We're all damnin' the consequences
I want to understand
The soul it takes to stand
For something bigger than
We used to walk in each other arm, "one on one," that's what you said. now the moon is a sliver in our eye, we stumble bleeding on this broken glass.
There's too much repetition, you know you're past the point of sane. all this broken glass you left behind, won't let you make a clean, clean walk away.
Now we're crossing from the sacred ground, where we once held each other, each other's names. when the words are sparse, we feel we're so profound, but babe you know all i feel, i feel so ashamed.
There's too much repetition, you know you're past the point of sane. all this broken glass you left behind, won't let you make a clean, clean walk away.
There was a time when we gave everything, and it was true, true enough to bleed. but now you feel that you've got nothing left. if there's nothing to lose, then there's nothing to gain. walk away.
There's too much repetition, you know you're past the point of sane. all this broken glass you left behind, won't let you make a clean, clean walk away.
You know i'd still hold you, if i could, it's hard not to try and change try to change your mind. i'm a pillar of salt, i want you to understand. this is the last time, the last time i ever look behind. walk away.
"Up in Smoke" is an Emily Saliers song, dating from early 1987, I
believe. I think that it's one of the most pop-oriented tunes Emily
has written, and it would fit in nicely with "Closer to Fine" and
"Hammer and a Nail." It's just catchy as all get-out. And I happen
to think that's a good thing.
Up in Smoke.
They took away my garden
To make room for a chemical plant
I feel my country's arteries harden
With the aid of a government grant
Chorus:
We are not a bunch of upstarts
Just out l
ooking for a cause
We hunger for our justice
And not applause
We don't just make peace signs and meditate
We don't take this thing as a joke
We just want to relate - we're in a pretty bad state
And we don't want to go up in smoke
My water has got cancer
And the rivers have all dried
While I watch my country practice
Nuclear suicide
Chorus
Don't think it's impossible
To see this thing come clean
We're going to save this poor old world's head
From the guillotine
Chorus/Solo
They took away my garden
(My water has got cancer)
To make room for a chemical plant
(And the rivers have all dried)
I feel my country's arteries harden
(While I watch my country practice)
Nuclear suicide
Chorus
"The Untitled Song" is an Emily Saliers composition. It originally
appeared on "Blue Food," and it has been performed as recently as
1989. Actually, I seem to recall someone telling me that they heard
it more recently... At any rate, I think that it may have been the
first truly great IG song, IMHO, and still ranks right up there as
one of the best.
The Untitled Song.
I tried my best to get over you
Kept my distance so I wouldn't have to show
That the things which I kept hidden
By my casual smile
Were the things that I needed you to know.
You could have seen the acting on the stage
You could have read the writing on the page
You could have noticed that a heart went breaking into two
But you never knew it was I was falling for you.
Sometimes I still think that I could get to you
Then I laugh, and think I could swim the seven seas
It seems when I'm set to fly, there's a storm up in the sky
When I'm set to sail, there isn't any breeze.
You could have seen the acting on the stage
You could have read the writing on the page
You could have noticed that a heart went breaking into two
But you never knew it was I was falling for you.
(solo)
It's been some time now that I saw you in a photograph
Looking just the way you did so long ago
I could almost see you throw your head back
And start to laugh in that gentle way that used to let me know
Things were okay, and a hurting song is just a cliche
And what's the use if they only always fade away
Crazy game, i never should have started to play, but now you couldn't tear me away cause love is sweet, sweet baby. so good to you and so bad and i fear, the situation's clear before my eyes. confusion wants to break me and it tries but i've been a little bit stronger from the start listen to my heart:
Cause if you're ever believing i'm thinking of leaving look to the moon, cause it's a fact she may go wandering about but she always comes shining back and it's true, i'll wait for you.
You dry your tears, don't be thinking grey is here to stay. sometimes everything is in the way you're wanting to look at it, turn your view around, dry your eyes. eyes like yours should carry a smile, i haven't seen them sparkle in a while, give it one more try, dry your eyes.
Trouble came around here
Here in the South we fix something to eat
Steam risin' up off the greenery and we welcome the strangers we meet
Alien sick growing in these walls
Like moss in a crack that time made
I brush a guy in the airport whistling it's a small world after all
And the prices are higher but the kids still selling lemonade
Get to the point of it get to the sense of it
I'm in a hurry to get through it
Hurricane flag flappin' in a bad storm
Same color of the spider underneath my nail
That bit me in my dream
And who would take out the Dominican Republic
And send God's sweet children floating down a poison stream
Secret society of conference rooms
I pledge my allegiance to the dollar
And when the clergy take a vote all the gays will pay again
Cause there's more than one kind of criminal white collar
Get to the point of it get to the sense of it
I'm in a hurry to get through it
One day the war will stop & we'll grow a peaceful crop
And a girl can get a wife & we can bring you back to life
Sacks of flour and rice or poker chips greasy palms and systems underhanding
And maybe we'll take a walk on Pluto
But be no closer to the understanding
Get to the point of it get to the sense of it
From baby to best with no second test,
Little storms destroy you.
Here is the fame they promised to give you,
Taking the place of my hand now.
Did you try to be true?
What separates me from you?
What separates me from you now?
Did you borrow the soul,
The soul that you sell now?
What does your conscience tell you?
Where are the demons
Of your desire?
Why does my love destroy you?
Did you try to be true?
What separates me from you?
What separates me from you now?
I said I tried to be true.
What separates me from you.
I said I tried, tried to be true.
What separates me from you.
What separates me from you now?
Did you try to be true?
What separates me from you?
What separates me from you now?
So where is the fame,
Where is the fortune?
Where is the world that denies you?
Who is to blame,
When my heart finally forfeits
To a road that will only misguide you?
Did you try to be true?
What separates me from you?
What separates me from you now?
Did we try to be true?
What separates me from you?
Did we try, try to be true?
What separates me from you:
Did you try to be true?
What separates me from you?
What separates me from you now?
I bought my love a hunger
More precious than a stone.
All these fatal flowers,
Did I misguide you?
(Where is the world that denies you)
(Try to be true)
Did you try to be true?
What separates me from you?
i thought the time was passed when i could
find beauty in a birds
i set the stage and the scenery
rehearsing every word
yeah but when i tried to make it more
well it was always less
and it's a thin line between pleasing yourself
and pleasing somebody else
oh yeah
oh yeah
all right
with my confidence on fire
i set to fixin' up my roles
my separation of desires
just left me deeper down in the hole
yeah when i tried to make it more
well it was always less
and it's a thin line between pleasing yourself
and pleasing somebody else
yeah and when i tried to make it more
well it was always less
it's a thin line between pleasing yourself
and pleasing somebody else
now i'm tryin to get back
to what i know that i should be
hoping to God that i was just
a temporary absentee
yeah when i tried to make it more
well it was always less
it's a thin line between pleasing yourself
and pleasing somebody else
yeah when i tried to make it more
well it was always less
and it's a thin line between pleasing yourself
and pleasing somebody else
somebody else oh yeah
oh yeah
all right
words and music gerard mchugh
The thin horizon of a plan is almost clear my friends and I have had a hard time bruising our brains hard up against change all the old dogs and the magician now I see we're in the boat in two by twos only the heart that we have for a tool we could use and the very close quarters are hard to get used to love weighs the hull down with its weight but the wood is tired and the wood is old and we'll make it fine if the weather holds but if the weather holds then we'll have missed the point that's were i need to go no way construction of this tricky plan was built by other than a greater hand with a love that passes all our understanding watching closely over the journey yeah but what it takes to cross the great divide seems more than all the courage i can muster up inside but we get to have some answers when we reach the other side the prize is always worth the rocky ride but the wood is tired and the wood is old and we'll make it fine if the weather holds but if the weather holds then we'll have missed the point that's where i need to go sometimes i ask to sneak a closer look skip to the final chapter of the book and maybe steer us clear from some of the pain that it took to get us where we are this far but the question drowns in its futility and even i have got to laugh at me cause no one gets to miss the storm of what will be just holding on for the ride the wood is tired the wood is old and we'll make it fine if the weather holds but if the weather holds then we'll have missed the point that's where i need to go
"The Water is Wide" is a traditional folk song. The girls have been
performing it now and then for years and years. I've been lucky
enough to see Mary-Chapin Carpenter add a beautiful third part to the
harmony on a few occasions.
The Water is Wi
The water is wide, I can't cross o'er
And neither I have wings to fly
Give me a boat that can carry two
And both shall row - my love and I
Now love is gentle, and love is kind
The sweetest flower when first it's new
But love grows old, and waxes cold
And fades away like morning dew
There is a ship, she sails the sea
She's loaded deep as deep can be
But not as deep as the love I'm in
I know not how I sink or swim
The water is wide, I can't cross o'er
And neither I have wings to fly
Give me a boat that can carry two
And both shall row - my love and I
If you were here in Starkville, the townie boys would love the way you stare.
If you were here in Starkville, the local girls , they wouldn't have a prayer.
I spent a reckless night inside the wonder of your everlasting charm,
now I'm haunted by geography, and the flora and the fauna of your heart.
At the dawning of some road worn day,
I called you on a whim just to say-
"The morning birds are singing",
but I could not do them justice, so I hung up and fell back to sleep.
I'm in love with my mobility, but sometimes this life can be a drag;
like when I noticed your nobility and how my leaving only held you back.
I remember one occasion- you were drinking,-when you asked me to the coast,
but I was hell bent on agony back then, so I missed the boat.
At the dawning of a road worn day,
I called you a whim just to say,
"My regrets become distractions when I can not do them justice",
then I hung up and fell back to sleep.
When I was down in Starkville, I was hiding out inside some Comfort Inn
from a local gang of troubadors, when the homecoming queen -she come riding in.
I slipped out of my room into the rain and I went running for my health.
The headlights turned to moonlight, and finally I was running by myself.
At the dawning of this road worn day,
I call you a whim just to say,
"The Ballad of Squeaky Fromme" is an Amy Ray song from about 1987.
(Since it's subject is topical, I'm sure that anyone who wants a more
exact date can easily get one.) Once again, Amy tends to improvise a
lot on this song, so I just took a number of versions, and kinda
averaged 'em together.
The Ballad of Squeaky Fromme
I'm scared as hell,
'Cause Squeaky's out of jail.
I can feel her close behind me,
Like the devil on my heels.
They say she's heading for California,
Or maybe for DC;
I'm sittin' here down in Georgia,
Arguing with my family.
The contras called a truce,
But they broke it in an hour;
And now someone's sittin' in the Tower of Babel,
He's givin' them that power.
They stop the war in Bethlehem,
Just to let sweet Jesus pass;
But how much does he really mean,
When they screw him over behind his back?
I can feel 'em closin' in,
And I hope she understands,
That society and me,
Now we aren't necessarily hand in hand.
She's broken all her bonds,
Got no superficial causes,
She gave up all her chances,
To live inside the law.
Squeaky, peace on earth -
Will you tell me what it's worth?
From the inside out I'd let you in
I think that you might understand.
Squeaky, in your mixed-up mind,
You may not be so blind.
From the inside out I'd let you in
I think that you might understand -
That God is in my heart,
But the Devil is in my bones.
And Squeaky, you are not alone.
Maybe we'll make Texas by the morning
Light the bayou with our tail lights in the night
800 miles to el paso from the state line
And we never have the money for the flight
I'm in the back seat sleepy from the travel
Played our hearts out all night long in New Orleans
I'm dirty from the diesel fumes, drinking coffee black
When the first breath of Texas comes in clean
And there's something 'bout the Southland in the springtime
Where the waters flow with confidence and reason
Though I miss her when I'm gone it won't ever be too long
Till I'm home again to spend my favorite season
When God made me born a yankee he was teasin'
There's no place like home and none more pleasin'
Than the Southland in the springtime
In Georgia nights are softer than a whisper
Beneath a quilt somebody's mother made by hand
With the farmland like a tapestry passed down through generations
And the peach trees stitched across the land
There'll be cider up near Helen off the roadside
And boiled peanuts in a bag to warm your fingers
And the smoke from the chimneys meets its maker in the sky
Sister, I'm heading out of Alabama
So you better think fast.
The wind is gonna pick me up now
And the rain won't slack.
I'm headed down to Georgia
So don't lose track
Of where you been and where you're going now,
Who you've seen and what they lack,
And why you come undone, every time you go there,
You come undone.
I know your heart's in danger
And so is your life.
I said you learn to trust a stranger,
Stop and rest for the night.
Set your site up in the headlight
The moon won't be enough.
Light the embers of another
And the night won't seem so rough,
Sister.
There was a bloody beast of burden
On a dark Texas road,
A woman in the family way
And a car that lost control.
Now I'm studying the distance
Between the blanket and the gun,
I got ten miles to Natchez and another ten home.
I know your heart's in danger
And so is your life.
I said you learn to trust a stranger,
Stop and rest for the night.
Set your site up in the headlight,
The moon won't be enough.
Light the embers of another
And the night won't seem so rough.
Sister, go ahead, come on.
I said it's trust that brought me here
We were sitting round a dying fire, somebody lit incense somebody lit a cigarette and passed the bottle around
It was just strawberry season, backbreaking pickers in the patches everything's burning down to ashes and down to the ground
She's saving me I don't even think she knows it
It's a strange way to show it as distant as last night's dream unravels
She's saving me I'm a very lost soul I was born with a hole in my heart
The size of my land locked travels
I try to put it aside but it's too much bigger than me there's a big brown hawk in the tree
Lighting and leaving
There's tea leaves tossing, heads up pennies in my pocket, dead star like a rocket, the arc of my grieving
She's saving me I don't even think she knows it
It's a strange way to show it as distant as last night's dream unravels
She's saving me I'm a very lost soul I was born with a hole in my heart
The size of my land locked travels
The sky pours out biblical rain
Then days so still the beauty gives you pain
The heatwave kills the green and she remains unseen
But colors up my dream with all things blooming
This is not all there is it's not a kingdom it's not an angry god
It feels like her
It feels like no fear, it feels like no doubt, it feels like inside out
The ashes stir
She's saving me I don't really think she knows it
It's a strange way to show it as distant as last night's dream unravels
She's saving me I'm a very lost soul
My friends they wash the windows and they shine in the sun
They tell me wake up early in the morning sometime
See what a beautiful job we done I say let's put on some tunes sing along dolittle all day
Go down to the riverside take off our shoes wash these sins away
The river said la la la shame on you I go down to Chicano city park cause it makes me feel so fine
When the weeds go down you can see up close in the dead of winter time
But when the summer comes everything's in bloom and you wouldn't know it's there
The white folks like to pretend it's not but their music's in the air
You can hear them singing la la la shame on you You can feel them dancing la la la shame on you
My friend Tanner she says you know me and Jesus we're of the same heart
The only thing that keeps us distant is that I keep fuckin up I said come on down to Chicano city park
wash your blues away the beautiful ladies walk on by You know I never know what to say
They'll be singing oo la la shame on you
Let's go road block trippin in the middle of the night up in Gainesville town
There'll be blue lights flashin down the long dirt road when they ask me to step out
They say we be looking for illegal immigrants can we check your car
**submitted by KDubs - forgive any mistakes...this is a great song and here are the lyrics from my first few listens!!!**
The second time around, you know it
Really got me down.
Sister don't you judge it, just
Keep it to yourself now and
If ya ain't got nothing good to say
Don't say nothin' at all
I got bitten by the bitter bug, and now I
Just can't get enough of
Ill will and my own conceit I'm
Weary of the world it seems.
I'm weary of the world,
Weary of the world it seems.
It's sort of always gone my way
I'm just a little bit off these days
Like I've had hard knocks all my life,
Like I'm a bible belt wife
Like I didn't see it coming,
Like I didn't walk in willingly
See, I never want to sing again
La la la like a butterfly
Without my wits about me,
Without my heart in line.
Third time's a charm
This is mine
[Harmonica feature]
You said you heard Loretta sing
And you felt the loneliness seeping in,
The cowboys made you uneasy,
You're a god-fearing lesbian
So you learn not to yearn
And you take it on the chin again
Here's what I find about compromise -
Don't do it if it hurts inside,
Cause either way you're screwed,
And eventually you'll find
You may as well feel good;
You may as well have some pride
[Interlude]
Come August we'll go to Cherokee and
Hear Loretta do her thing,
Pack it into the Indian casino and
Make the hillbilly scene,
Kick up our heels
And join in
Are you my ally or my enemy?
Do you have self-loathing or empathy?
Can you keep me in your prayers,
Sister, can you keep me in there somewhere?
And sister... If you ain't got nothing good to say...
Dog at the window still looks all day never gets her fill
Cause a glance means a chance to break the birds out congregating
I have seen a look like that you licked your chops from where you sat
Make your kill for a thrill and you don't mind waiting
Rise up your dead, there's life in the old girl yet
Rise up your dead
When it bums you out, all the hunters sprung to pounce
And at best it's a mess like a nest infested
You remember there's more than this
There always was and always is
Tend the artist in your charges, you are full invested
And if you need to, read your mindless mag
Call me up for tickets, we'll go see sugarland
And it gets better even when it's been a drag
Just move to the music, move your body to the band and
Now the parking lot is empty
Everyone's gone someplace
I pick you up and in the trunk I've packed
A cooler and a two day suitcase
'Cause there's a place we like to drive
Way out in the country
And five miles out of the city limit we're singin'
And your hand's upon my leg
So we're ok, we're fine
Baby I'm here to stop your crying
Chase all the ghosts from your head
I'm stronger than the monster beneath your bed
Smarter than the tricks played on your heart
Look at them together then we'll take them apart
Adding up the total of a love that's true
Multiply life by the power of two
You know the things that I am afraid of
I'm not afraid to tell
And if we ever leave a legacy
It's that we loved each other well
Because I've seen the shadows of so many people
Still trying on the treasures of youth
But a road that fancy and fast ends in a fatal crash
And I'm glad we got off to tell you the truth
So we're ok, we're fine
Baby I'm here to stop your crying
Chase all the ghosts from your head
I'm stronger than the monster beneath your bed
Smarter than the tricks played on your heart
Look at them together then we'll take them apart
Adding up the total of a love that's true
Multiply life by the power of two
All the shiny little trinkets of temptation
Something new instead of something old
All you gotta do is scratch beneath the surface
And it's fool's gold, fool's gold, fool's gold
Now we're talking about a difficult thing
Your eyes are getting wet
I took us for better and I took us for worse
And don't you ever forget it
Now there's steel bars between me and a promise
Suddenly bend with ease
The closer I'm bound in love to you
The closer I am to free
So we're ok, we're fine
Baby I'm here to stop your crying
Chase all the ghosts from your head
I'm stronger than the monster beneath your bed
Smarter than the tricks played on your heart
Look at them together then we'll take them apart
Adding up the total of a love that's true
Multiply life by the power of two
"Please Call Me, Baby" is an Emily Saliers song - I know very little
about it, but the one tape I have of it sounds like it's from around
1987. That's about all I can tell you.
Please Call Me, Baby
Well, evening fell just like a star
Left a trail across the sky
You spit as you walked out the door
If this is love we're crazy
As we fight like cats and dogs
I just know there's got to be more
So please call me, baby
Wherever you are
It's too cold to be out walking the streets
We do crazy things when we're wounded
Everyone's a bit insane
I don't want you catching your death of cold
Walking in the rain
I'll admit I ain't no angel
I admit I ain't no saint
I'm selfish and cold but you're blind
If I exercise my devils
Well, my angels may leave too
And they're so hard to find
So please call me, baby
Wherever you are
It's too cold to be out walking the streets
We do crazy things when we're wounded
Everyone's a bit insane
I don't want you catching your death of cold
Walking in the rain
We're always at each other's throats
You know it drives me up the wall
Most of the time blowin' off steam
I wish to hell you'd leave me
I wish to God you'd stay
Life's so different in a dream
So please call me, baby
Wherever you are
It's too cold to be out walking the streets
We do crazy things when we're wounded
Everyone's a bit insane
I don't want you catching your death of cold
Walking in the rain
I don't want you catching your death of cold
"Play It Again, Sam" is an Emily Saliers song, written during her
sophomore year at Tulane, when she was "really depressed." She says
that it's a hopeful song... It just takes until the last line for
the hopefulness to appear.
Play It Again, Sa
Well, we read best selling novels so we can talk between the lines
And we often close our eyes just to hide the dollar signs
And we're suddenly pretentious, and conform right with the stream
We're born and bred believers in the American Dream.
And we drink our whiskey straight, though we do not like the taste
And we dress in obligations, with a top hat show of haste
And we hinder our reactions as we measure what we say
Until someone starts to cry and the faces turn away, again.
Play it again, Sam, take it slow and easy
Sing about the land of the brave and the home of the free
And there's a man who will tip you better than you've gotten yet
If you play us a happy song and help us forget
Play it again, Sam.
Well, we'll donate to our charities to deduct our future taxes
And we flock to bars for drinking, though one never quite relaxes
And we'll compromise our standards if it means we'll get attention
And the things we need the most to say are the things we never
mention.
Play it again, Sam, take it slow and easy
Sing about the land of the brave and the home of the free
And there's a man who will tip you better than you've gotten yet
If you play us a happy song and help us forget
Play it again, Sam.
Now I know God is in His Heaven, though it's hard to keep in mind
When you're searching for relief, and hell is all you find
And I know that I'm a romantic, and I must seem a fool to say
But I know I'm going to see a few hands joined before my dying day.
Play it again, Sam, take it slow and easy
Sing about the land of the brave and the home of the free
And there's a man who will tip you better than you've gotten yet
If you play us a happy song and help us all forget
Play it again, Sam...
Play it again, Sam...
Welcome to why the church has died
In the heart of the exiled in the kingdom of hate
Who owns the land & keeps the commands
And marries itself to the state
Modern scribes write in Jesus Christ
Everyone is free
And the doors open wide to all straight men & women
But they are not open to me
And who is teaching kids to be soldiers
To be marked by a plain white cross
And we kill just a little to save a lot more
The philosophy of loss
There are a few who would be true out of love
And love is hard
And don't think that our hands haven't shoveled the dirt
Over their central American graveyards
Doctors & witch hunters stripped you bare
Left you nothing for your earthly sins
Yeah but who made this noise just a bunch of boys
And the one with the most toys wins
Who is teaching kids to be gamblers
Life is a coin toss
And of course what you give up is what you gain
The philosophy of loss
Whatever has happened to anyone else
Could happen to you & to me
And the end of my youth was the possible truth
That it all happens randomly
Who is teaching kids to be leaders
and the way that it is meant to be
We get to be a ripple in the water
We get to be a rock that's thrown
We get to be a boy on the bridge
Standing over the reservoir
I see the water lapping on the shoreline
Buried forest of a man made lake
Cemeteries are laying underneath it
Your heart like a damn embrace
We're floating we're swimming
And at this moment we are forgetting
What we caused what it takes
The one perfect world when we look the other way
I'm okay if I don't look a little closer
I'm okay I if don't see beyond the shore
I'm okay I don't have to do the killing or
Know what the killing is for
We're talking we're driving
And in this moment we are denying
What we caused what it takes
The one perfect world when we look the other way
One perfect world...when we look the other way
You can see beyond the middle isolation
And the miracle of daybreak doesn't move you anymore
Connect the points and then see the constellations
As the night comes down on the reservoir
We're swimming we're floating
And in this moment we are beholden
To what we've caused to what it takes
The one perfect world
Can we learn to live another way
Perfect world...can we learn to live another way
One...perfect world
I meet you for coffee
We get together periodically
I got a bad case I can't shake off of me
The fevered walking round wondering how it ought to be
You work in the system
You see possibilities and your glistening
Eyes show the hell you're gonna give 'em
When they back off the mic for once and give it to a woman
I dream like a mad one
Brutal fantasies I catch as catch can
I'm a psychic and a laywoman
I see love and I like to make it happen
What we get from your war walk
Ticker of the nation breaking down like a bad clock
I want the pendulum to swing again
So that all your mighty mandate was just spitting in the wind
It doesn't come by the bullwhip
It's not persuaded with your hands on your hips
Not the company of gunslingers
The epicenter love is the pendulum swinger
She is she is she is
It's fine about the old scroll Sanskrit
Gnostic gospels the da vinci code a smash hit
Aren't we dying just to read it and relate
Too hard just to go by a blind faith
But they left out the sisters
Praying to a father god so long I really missed her
The goddess of benevolence
You should listen to your mama if you have a lick of sense left
Pushed under by the main press, buried under a code of dress
Relegated by the Vatican
But you can't keep a spirit down that wants to get up again
If we're a drop in the bucket
With just enough science to keep from saying fuck it
Until the last drop of sun burns its sweet light
Well, in honor of this being my last regularly scheduled post for a
while, I thought I'd go with tradition and post some kind of lyric,
as per usual. And then I thought again, and I decided that I should
post something entirely non-indigo related, again, as per usual. So,
I argued with myself, did a little haggling, and came up with a
compromise: a non-indigo lyric. However, it IS another one of those
somgs about leaving (y'all are going to think we're all depressed)...
It's a Townes Van Zant song that Mary-Chapin Carpenter occasionally
does live, as a duet with her keyboard player, Jon Carroll. It's
called "None but the Rain."
None But the Rain.
We had our day, and now it's over
We had our song, and now it's all sung
We took our stroll through summer's clover
But summer's gone, baby, and the walking's done.
So, tell me gently, who'll be your lover?
Who'll be your lover after I am gone?
Will it be the moon that hears your sighing?
Will it be the willow that hears your lonesome sigh?
Will it be the rain that clings to your bosom?
Will it be the sunshine that dries your golden hair?
Will it be the wind that warns of my returning?
Will the rose be in your arms when I find you waiting there?
None but the rain shall cling to my bosom
None but the moon shall hear my lonesome sighs
None but the wind shall warn of my returning
"Never Stop" is an Emily Saliers song from the 1986 EP. The last
time I heard it performed was in March of 1990, I think. The lyrics
are transcribed directly from the EP lyric sheet. It's odd in that
it's one of the only IG songs that's gender-specific, in the line
"throw away your hidden ace, you clever man."
Never Stop
You say she's a very good friend,
Circumstances I should understand.
But like recurring tide she comes on to you
And looks as though she's looking for a man
Honey, Don't make yourself so available
My pride's in my pocket, but I can be reasonable
Still, all in all, I forsee my own fall
But I've climbed too far to drop, so stop
I know it's your ego puts the smile on your face
Because you know you got your options open
She's a beguiling snake and she'll keep what she takes
But when she leaves you, I'll be the one coping
Honey, don't make yourself so available
My pride's in my pocket, but I can be reasonable
Still, through and through I can see clean through you
I know you like to be the one on top, but stop!
You will miss my conversation when you're talking to yourself
You'll be thumbing for advice through the pages of the novels on your
shelf
Honey, don't you see our love together's the very best bet
Put your focus on me and I'll forgive and forget
Throw away your hidden ace, you clever man, take my hand
You needn't play the part of your image
This is not a one act play we're living
As long as I'm here the situation is clear
It'll be 50/50 take and giving
Honey don't you see a lifetime's not much to ask
take off your costume and remove your mask
If yes is what you will say we're gonna satrt from today
We're gonna take it to the very top
"Melissa" is an Allman Brothers Band song from 1972. A live IG
version appears on "Shades of Indigo."
Melissa.
Crossroads seem to come and go
The gypsy flies from coast to coast
Knowing many, loving none
Bearing sorrow, having fun
But back home he'll always run
To sweet Melissa.
Freight train, each car looks the same - all the same
No one knows the gypsy's name
No one hears his lonely sighs
There are no blankets where he lies
In all his deepest dreams the gypsy flies
With sweet Melissa.
Again the morning's come
Again he's on the run
Sunbeams shining through his hair
Appearing not to have a care
Pick up your gear, and, gypsy, roll on, roll on
Crossroads, will you ever let him go?
Will you hide the dead man's ghost?
Will he lie beneath the clay?
Will his spirit float away?
But I know that he won't stay
Without Melissa
Yes, I know that he won't stay
"Make This House a Home" is a song by Amy Ray and Michelle Malone,
from early 1987.
Make This House a Home.
Well, there's something in us living
There's something you should know
There was a time for us to fall
Now it's time to grow
But you know it's not the way
That I intended it to be
Crossing hearts and killing souls
And trying to get down to what's real
All I ever wanted was to make this house a home
I let go of sinking sand - won't you help me find a stone?
All I ever wanted
All I ever wanted
All I ever wanted
All I ever wanted
All I ever wanted
Was to make this house a home
All I needed was your hand to hold
I spent so much time alone
I needed your direction
But we re-aligned my broken bones
Well, they're running from a lifeless state
Somehow we lost our hold
All we have with us is change
Left over from what started out as gold
All I ever wanted was to make this house a home
I let go of sinking sand - won't you help me find a stone?
All I ever wanted
All I ever wanted
All I ever wanted
All I ever wanted
All I ever wanted
Was to make this house a home
This is what I give to you
It's flesh and blood
It's body and soul
Won't you take what's left of who I am
And try to see it whole?
I'm holding you responsible for every word I say
If you feel the brokenness
Won't you try and look the other way
I never meant to be so low
I only wanted you to see
That time was healing someone else
But it's tearing apart the very heart of me
This is what I give to you
It's flesh and blood
It's body and soul
Won't you take what's left of who I am
And try to see it whole?
All I ever wanted was to make this house a home
I let go of sinking sand - won't you help me find a stone?
All I ever wanted
All I ever wanted
All I ever wanted
All I ever wanted
All I ever wanted
Was to make this house a home
So make this house a home
make this house a home
I'm in search of greener pastures
Don't like my garden's what I said
Although I'm working harder than last year
I'm still deep in the red
I am rowing as hard as I can
And they're selling me up a stream
I'm always a one more step away
From the American dream
I got a chip on my shoulder
About the size of a mental block
And I've got someone on the telephone
Trying to sell me a future in stock
Maybe I work too hard to be happy
And I should practice letting go
But it's hard not to rock the boat
When you're sailing against the undertow
I want to slide into the black
And wear the black mask
I might not get what I lack
But it doesn't hurt to ask
If I want to sail
I need my life to be breezier
I said "Please God or someone
Make it easier"
I went to Sunday school every Sunday
Swallowed the bait and I got the hook
When I needed something someday
I would read the real good book
And tell me, what does it take to get ahead?
Times I know I'd sell my soul
It looks like everybody else is flying
And I'm crawling in the hole
Well, maybe if I open my own business
Maybe if I buy the lottery ticket
Someone tell me what is the secret
We're gettin' out of the thicket
Give me more than just a sample
I need a whole lot of, lot of glory
My life become an example
Of the American success story
I want to slide into the black
And wear the black mask
I might not get what I lack
But it doesn't hurt to ask
If I want to sail
I need my life to be breezier
I said "Please God or someone
Make it easier"
I want to slide into the black
And wear the black mask
I might not get what I lack
But it doesn't hurt to ask
If I want to sail
I need my life to be breezier
I said "Please God or someone
Make it easier
Make it easier
"Love of the Common People" is a song credited to "Hurley/ Wilkens."
I honestly have no idea who these people are. I DO know that Emily
calls this an "old folk song," and claims that she learned it from a
nun. And, apparently, it has also been recorded by Paul Young. The
girls have been performing it since at least 1986, and a live version
of it appears on the "Reverse 1" CD.
Love of the Common People.
Living on free food tickets
There's water in the milk from a hole in the roof
Where the rain came through
What can you do?
You've got tears from your little sister
Crying 'cause she doesn't have a dress without a patch
For the party to go
But you know she's gonna get by.
-chorus-
Living in the love of the common people
Smiles from the heart of a family man
Daddy's gonna buy you a dream to cling to
Momma's gonna love you just as much as she can
And she can.
It's a good thing you don't have bus fare
It would fall through the hole in your pocket
And you'd lose it the snow on the ground
You better walk to town and find a job.
And you try to keep your hands warm
But the hole in your shoe lets the snow come through
And it chills you to the bone
You better go home, where it's warm.
-chorus-
Living on a dream ain't easy
But the closer the knit, the tighter the fit
And the chills stay away
We like to keep them in stride with family pride.
Faith is your foundation
Got a whole lot of love and a warm conversation
But don't forget to pray
It's keeping us strong where we belong.
-chorus-
Living in the love of the common people
(...You know that faith is your foundation)
Smiles from the heart of a family man
(...Little bit of love and a warm conversation)
Daddy's gonna buy you a dream to cling to
(...Don't forget to pray, it's keeping us strong)
Momma's gonna love you just as much as she can
(...Where we belong)
Living in the love of the common people
(...Oh, living on a dream ain't easy)
Smiles from the heart of a family man
(...But the closer the knit, the tighter the fit)
Daddy's gonna buy you a dream to cling to
(...We like to keep 'em in stride)
Momma's gonna love you just as much as she can
(...Family pride)
"Losin' Touch" is an Amy Ray song from "Color Me Grey."
Losin' Touch.
Here I am, shooting for the sky
You say you've settled in
Yeah, well, I guess that's good for you
But I'm still trying to tear myself free
Well, I could take it or leave it,
That's what I've said to myself
Then I start to tremble
And I'm lost to a powerless cause
I'm losin' touch
Sometimes my memories, they just seem to fade fast away
I've been losing too much
Losing the feel for the dreams I once thought I had
'Cause sometimes I feel like they're all circling around
They keep calling to me, and I keep falling down
I'd rather be alone and lonely lying on the ground
Than in those grips again
They're so cruel
Taught me to fly, then they stole my sky
They taught me to love
Then they broke me down 'till there was nothing left but emptiness
And don't you ever feel like they're all circling around
They keep calling to me, and I keep falling down
I'd rather be alone and lonely lying on that ground
Than in those grips again
Well, I could take it, I could leave it, you know, hah,
That's what I've said to myself
I've been down there so many times, you know
And it hurts like nothing else
"Cause I'm losin' touch
"Life's So Strange" is an Emily Saliers song. The only performance I
have of it is from Carboro, North Carolina, on 21 March 1988.
Stylistically, it seems to fit pretty tightly into that time period,
so I don't think it was written too much earlier than that.
Cold black coffee, incessant stream of cars
Cigarette ash lies sprinkled like a fistful of grey stars
Yesterday it rained silver rainbows on the ground
Today the rain's just water - it won't stop from falling down.
I get weary waiting for my muse
But in between the times she comes
I still have to tie my shoes
And get on with my day
There are mornings when I'm with (?)
And there are days I have to take the bus.
Life's so rich...
Life's so empty...
Secret rendezvous, long distance from a phone booth
Like two players in a mystery straight out of our youth
Well I'm finding that dramatics have lost their old appeal
I play the part of stoic lover, but I'm not sure how I feel
I get discouraged waiting for the world
To understand this love affair
To understand the girl
There are mornings when Amelia's right beside me
The next thing I know, I taste the salt of the sea.
Life's so rich...
Life's so empty...
Cold black coffee, incessant stream of cars
Cigarette ash lies sprinkled like a fistful of grey stars
Yesterday it rained silver rainbows on the ground
Today the rain's just water - it won't stop from falling down.
As I grow weary, I'm waiting for the world
To understand this love affair
To understand the girl
There are mornings when Amelia's right beside me
The next thing I know, I taste the salt of the sea.
Life's so rich...
Life's so empty...
"Lifeblood" is an Emily Saliers song from the 1986 Indigo Girls EP.
I think the last time I heard it performed live was March of 1990.
I'm transcribing the lyrics straight off of the lyric sheet from the
EP, not from the song itself.
Another night in a successsion
Thinly glued with beer and wine
It's a precarious profession
Every day at work sees your heart on the line
Maybe I should have gone to business school
Or gained myself a respectable trade
Or stayed in childhood where the shade keeps you cool
Making my living selling lemonade
Chorus:
But running through my veins
Are the words and the refrains
As if they were my lifeblood itself
And I can't stay alive on the food of 9 to 5
If my dreams were just old pictures on the shelf
I remember the folks said give it a try
Or you'll never know who you might have been
And just remember, nothing is the end of the world
Until the world comes to an end
Still, there's a point to this philosophy
Of taking a look at who you are
Still sometimes all I have to help me see
Are all the mirrors behind the bar
Chorus
Musical Interlude
Everybody loves you and they want to know your story
You go riding out a mystery, concealed in all your glory
But when it comes to flesh and bones, you remind me of shallot
Only made of shadows even though you're not
I remember how I spent all my energy and time
With affected conversation I was trying to pry inside your mind
You are as beautiful as truth and as empty as a shell
But I came to you one night and it made me feel like hell
Oh, to reach through all your surface just to find an empty pool
And to suffer all your pride as I lay down by your side
And you swallowed up my heart and left me a fool
Left me a fool
Everybody loves a hero, an image to create
Antithesis of everything, inside ourselves we hate
But you'd better close your eyes when it's time for them to die
Because you'd hate to think the life you'd built upon them was a lie
Oh, to reach through all your surface just to find an empty pool
And to suffer all your pride as I lay down by your side
And you swallowed up my heart and left me a fool
Left me a fool
I resign myself to silence, I will never blow your cover
No one ever has to know who the hero took for lover
But it comes to mind as you blaze on as brilliant as a star
How many you've left behind?
How many casualties there are?
Oh, to reach through all your surface just to find an empty pool
And to suffer all your pride as I lay down by your side
And you swallowed up my heart and left me a fool
Left me a fool
"High Horse" is an Emily Saliers song, presumably written in 1987, as
it appears on the original release of "Strange Fire." Though they
used to perform the song live, Emily now hates this song. Don't
expect to hear it live anytime soon.
High Horse
You had your chance to show affection
You had your chance to give me more
And now that she's found new direction
You make your way to my back door
What makes you think the whole world wants you
Give steel a kiss and it will bend
The flesh is weak, but when all is said and done
Spirit's all that's left in the end
If you have to saddle your high horse
Go on and ride out of my sight
You never had the time of day for me
And now you want to spend the night
You're big with the come-on like it's no big deal
(no big deal to you)
You let the wild wind blow your course
I do not want the dirt from your shoes
Or from the hooves of your high horse
The way I see it, there are few things left
To hold on to and keep your head
Your sense of humor and integrity
There's nothing funny about what's being said
There was a day when I would let myself be trampled
As long as it was done by you
But I took so much abuse, now I've had ample
Oh the party's kicked up a few notches look at us getting loose
She leans back against the wall and she watches tugging her collar like it might be a noose.
And everyones tied to their thing
To their past or their drink or the date that they bring
I just get tired all of sudden taking it in.
And I want to lay my head down on you
Because youre the only solid thing in this room
A room full of changes strangers illusion confusion,
I speak from my heart but im not really sure if its true.
I wanna lay my head down on you.
Oh dont waste too much time planning
Or you'll get rug ripped out
And the only way you'll be satisfied
Is learning to live with out.
But some plan for the kingdom of heaven
And some take their chances and bet lucky seven
I don't know what to believe I just show up and breathe anymore.
And I wanna lay my head down on you
Because youre the only solid thing in this room
A room full of dressers, professors, lookers, hookers
If I don't get out I'll do something I don't wanna do.
And I wanna lay my head down on you.
Was it so long ago
That we sat and talked in your car
Your things were all packed
And the place you were headed not really that far
Years later I think
That I would have been much more alive
To have taken you up on your offer and taken that drive
Well everything that's come before us leads us to where we are now
And thats simple, I know so why cant I let go of the feeling
That im lost somehow
I'm just a ghost looking in
Out of my own life just visiting
In search of a body to have and to hold and to keep and to sleep.
I wanna lay my head down on you
Because youre the only solid thing in this room
A room full of missed chance, slow dance, cold fate heartache
I showed up for a party and saw my life story full view
you can go to the east to find your
your inner hemisphere
you say we're under the same sky babe
your bound to realize honey it's not that clear
i'm not your promised land oh no
i'm not your promised one
i'm not the land of canaan sweetheart
waiting for you under the sun
i'm lonely tonight
i'm missing you now
i'm wanting your love
and you're giving it out
i'm lonely tonight
i'm lonely tonight
i'm lonely tonight
well, the meanings changed
for what it's worth
it's just a senseless game
well i should think of love
but it's fear every time i hear
honey your heartbeat strain
it's not the fallen man
it's not the call of time
it's just the london skyline sweetheart
telling me you're not mine
i'm lonely tonight
i'm missing you now
i'm wanting your love
and you're giving it out
i'm lonely tonight
i'm lonely tonight
i'm lonely tonight
my blood is running dry
my skin is, my skin is growing thin
for every time you find yourself
you loose a little bit of me honey from within
it's just a raging cycle
why can't we bring it all to the end of the line
from inside this existence, sweetheart
time is not on my side
i'm lonely tonight
i'm missing you now
i'm wanting your love
and you're giving it out
i'm lonely tonight
i'm lonely tonight
i'm lonely tonight
i'm not your promised land
(i'm lonely tonight)
i'm not your promised one
(honey i'm trying to tell you that i'm lonely tonight)
i'm not your promised land
i'm not your promised one
i'm not the land of canaan
(i'm lonely tonight)
i'm not your land of canaan
(i'm lonely tonight)
i'm not the land of canaan sweetheart
waiting for you under the sun
i'm lonely tonight
words and music by amy ray
"Killing Time" is a song by Atlanta musician DeDe Vogt. DeDe is a
true Atlanta musician - a major part of the local music scene. She
has played bass for a number of bands, from Indigo Girls to Boink Dee
Deek, to Kristen Hall's former band OK Fine to the Paper Dolls, for
whom she wrote this song. She helps local talent, too - recording
demos and such... And she's a fine singer/songwriter in her own
right - she puts on an interesting set featuring covers from 30's
blues to Joni Mitchell to Led Zeppelin, as well as her own originals,
which are pretty damn good. And she has a really unique style of
guitar fingerpicking - I've never seen anything like it. She also
plays a mean mandolin. And, she's a pretty funny lady, from what
I've observed. Anyway, the girls did this song in 1987. It was kind
of a trade, actually - the girls did the Paper Dolls' "Killing Time,"
and the Dolls did Amy's "Blood and Fire." (MANGLED it, if you ask me
- though I kinda liked the Dolls, even despite that. At least, I
liked two of their covers - Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots are Made For
Walkin'," and Jimi Hendrix's "Fire.") Anyway...
Killing Time.
Who is counting sleepless nights?
Who is counting letters I meant to write?
Who is counting at all?
If you are, I look pretty small
-chorus-
But no matter what I do
If I couldn't be call you mine
If I couldn't be with you
I'd just be killing time
You went searching for me in the night sky
And when I burned away, you wondered why
Well, I'll tell you, babe, I could not bear to stall
I fell too fast, I fell too far
-chorus-
Big, big fishes in little ponds
I've seen them walk around with magic wands
-chorus-
There ain't no magician hidden inside of me
So no matter what you hear, I hope you see
That just when I'm trying to be tall
That's when I end up looking pretty small
-chorus-
No matter what I do
(And you know I will burn)
If I couldn't be call you mine
(Like a star in the sky)
If I couldn't be with you
(All I'd be doing is)
I'd just be killing time
I left my anger in a river running highway five new hampshire vermont border by college farms hubcaps and falling rocks voices in the woods and the mountaintops i used to search for reservations and native lands before i realized everywhere stand there have been tribal feet running wild as fire some past life sister of my desire jonas and ezekial hear me now steady now don't come out i'm not ready for the dead to show its face whose turn is it anyway? when i was young my people taught me well give back what you take or you'll go to hell it's not the devil's land you know it's not that kind every devil i meet becomes a friend of mine every devil i meet is an angel in disguise jonas and ezekial hear me now steady now don't come out i'm not ready for the dead to show its face whose turn is it anyway? white chain rope fear be still my dear a bullet in the head now he's dead a friend of a friend someone said he was an activist with a very short life i think there's a lesson here he died without a fight in the war over land where the world began prophecy says it's where the world will end but there's a tremor growing in our own backyard fear in our heads fear in our hearts prophets in the graveyard jonas and ezekiel hear me now stead now don't come out i'm not ready for the dead to show its face whose turn is it anyway? jonas and ezekial hear me now steady now i feel your ghost about i'm not ready for the dead to show its face whose angel are you anyway?
"I Shall Be Released" is a 1967 Bob Dylan song that the Girls have
been doing on occasion for several years now. It usually functions
as an encore, and features numerous guests. The version that I'm
transcribing is from the lyric sheet the girls used at the Fox
theater, on October 30th, 1989. There are subtle variations from
Dylan's lyrics - gender references, such as "They say every man
needs..." are changed to the non-specific "They say everyONE
needs..." In fact, in the third verse, Amy had already written
Dylan's "Is a man who swears he's not to blame," but she crossed it
out, and amended it to "Is someone who...." It's a minor difference,
but it's kinda significant... like the way the Girls change Robert
Hunter's "Goddamn, well, I declare" to "Sister, well, I declare" in
their version of "Uncle John's Band."
(By the way, I'm transcribing the lyric sheet exactly as I see it,
including performance notes... "Michelle" refers to Michelle
Malone.)
I Shall Be Released
y: A
Michelle ---> 1
They say everything can be replaced
(A Bm)
Yet every distance is not near
(C#min D A)
So, I remember every face
(A Bm)
Of everyone who put me here.
(C#min D A)
Everyone ---> Chorus
I see my light come shining
(A Bm)
From the west unto the east
(C#min D A)
Anyday now, any day now,
(A Bm)
I shall be released.
Emily ---> 2
They say everyone needs protection,
They say everyone must fall
Yet I swear I see my reflection
Some place so high above this wall
Everyone ---> Chorus
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Anyday now, any day now
I shall be released.
Solos / jams
Amy ---> 3
Standing next to me in this lonely crowd,
Is someone who swears he's not to blame.
All day long I hear him shout so loud
Crying out that he's been framed.
Everyone ---> Chorus
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Anyday now, anyday now
I shall be released
When we tried to rework all of this
Each to her rendition
Painted ourselves in a corner
Lost for ideas blindly fishing
For a compliment or kindness
Just to bring us into view
But you could not interpret me and I could not interpret you
I remember that cold morning when the trees were black with birds
I tried to make out some connection
We were at a loss for words
After all that we've been through
I could not see giving up
Despite the picture of our coffee growing colder in the cups
I want to say that underneath it all you are my friend
And the way that I fell for you I'll never fall that way again
I still believe despite our differences that what we have's enough
And I believe in you and I believe in love
So we went rolling on down through the years
Taking time off we could steal
Until the thief of things unreconciled
Stuck it's stick into the wheel
Now we're tumbling in a freefall
No one's gonna go unscathed
But it's not because you held back and its not how I behaved
I want to say that underneath it all you are my friend
And the way that I fell for you I'll never fall that way again
I still believe despite our differences that what we have's enough
I believe in you and I believe in love
There are avenues and supplements and books stacked on the shelf
Labyrinths of recovery in search of our best self
But most of what will happen now is way out of our hands
So just let it go and see where it lands
I want to say that underneath it all you are my friend
And the way that I fell for you I'll never fall that way again
I still believe despite our differences that what we have's enough
I believe in you and I believe in love
I want to live in a holy city
I want to drink from a holy vine
I want to be where the people are pretty
Just because they feel it deep down inside
Chorus:
I don't want to wait for heaven
I can find what I need right here on earth this time
Too many people hold the way for heaven
If you can't feel it here, you won't feel it there anyway.
I want to live in a stained glass window
I want to change light to day
I want to have the sun shining through me
Causing my existence in every way
Chorus
I want to live in a heart of love
I want to swim in a mind of peace
I want to be your emotional outlet
I want to be love's sweet release
I'm gonna build me a holy city
I'm gonna drink from a holy, holy vine
I'm gonna be where the people are pretty
Because they feel it deep down inside
I went all the way to Paris to forget your face
Captured in stained glass, young lives long since passed
Statues of lovers every place
I went all across the continent to relieve this restless love
I walked through the ruins, icons of glory
Smashed by the bombs from above
So we must love while these moments are still called today
Take part in the pain of this passion play
Stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust
Until time makes history of us
Jeu de Paume's full of faces knowing peace, knowing strife
Leisure and toil, still it's canvas and oil
There's just no medium for life
In the midst of the rubble I felt a sense of rebirth
In a dusty cathedral the living God called
And I prayed for my life here on earth
So we must love while these moments are still called today
Take part in the pain of this passion play
Stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust
Until time makes history of us
There are mountains in Switzerland, brilliant cold as they stand
From my hotel room, watching the half-moon
Bleeding its light like a lamb
And the town is illumined, its tiny figures are fast asleep
And it dawns on me the time is upon me
To return to the flock I must keep
So we must love while these moments are still called today
Take part in the pain of this passion play
Stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust
You spent five years saying you'd come my way
That's a little more wait than a heart can take
Yeah now that I know it's just a fantasy
I feel a hard time coming around for me
I said oh
Oh oh
Oh oh
There's a heartache for everyone
Oh oh
Oh oh
There's a heartache for everyone
I spent two years saying give me a chance
Hey I'd give it all up and I'll take your hand
Yeah but not forever it was understood
Yeah baby just for a while it would do us some good
I said oh
(I'm waiting to restore my life)
Oh oh
Oh oh
There's a heartache for everyone
(I'm waiting to restore my faith)
Oh oh
Oh oh
There's a heartache for everyone
I'll wait for you until I know
There's a heartache for everyone
Hey valentine I'm just a stumbling around
Who knew that Paris was such a lonely town
I'll meet you at the bridge where we wanted to kiss
Or take the high road and be done with this
Hey valentine I'm just a stumbling around
Who knew that Paris was such a lonely town
I'll meet you at the bridge where we wanted to kiss
Or take the high road and be done with this
I'll give you six more weeks baby just in case
You can change your mind you won't be replaced
Honey looking at a lifetime of regret
(looking at a lifetime of regret)
Oh just one little moment that I'll never forget
(Just one little moment that I'll never forget)
I said oh
(I'm waiting to restore my life)
Oh oh
Oh oh
There's a heartache for everyone
(I'm waiting to restore my faith)
Oh oh
Oh oh
There's a heartache for everyone
I'll wait for you until I know
There's a heartache for everyone
I'll wait for you until I know
"Heartache Central Time" MAY be an Amy Ray song. I don't actually
know much of anything about it, except that the sole version I have
is a studio version, featuring organ, piano, bass, and drums, in
addition to A&E.; I don't know when it was recorded, but I'm guessing
- only guessing, mind you - that it MAY have been an out-take from
the EP sessions. Or, possibly, from a live-in-the-studio radio
broadcast, such as WRFG's "What the Folk," or WREK's "Live at WREK."
It's a silly kind of country-and-western style song that makes
pinning a stylistic date down difficult, but Amy's lead vocal
suggests (to me, anyway) that it may be from around 1985-6.
Heartache Central Time
Thought you were one who wouldn't run
Who wouldn't do me wrong
But the song that you were singing
Was the same old heartache song
You treat me fine and you wined and dined
And I believed you when you said
"I love you, babe," but your only aim
Was to get me in your bed
Now I don't even like you no more
But I can't get you off of my mind
Baby, you've got me livin' in Heartache Central Time
(Heartache Central, Heartache Central, Heartache Central Time)
Anytime is a hurting time
With a hurting heart like mine
God knows I'd get over you if only I could find
A way to get my hurtin' heart
off Heartache Central Time
Remember last September
When you looked into my eyes
I should have known that the love you'd shown
Was nothing more than lies
I fell for you and I know it's true
That I should have stopped myself
But my lonely heart was too alone
To hurt all by itself
Now I don't even like you no more
But I can't get you off of my mind
Baby, you've got me livin' in Heartache Central Time
(Heartache Central, Heartache Central, Heartache Central Time)
Anytime is a hurting time
With a hurting heart like mine
God knows I'd get over you if only I could find
A way to get my hurtin' heart
"Hand in Hand" is yet another Mark Knopfler song, also from their
1980 album "Making Movies." And, yet again, it's a song that Amy
only does solo. She doesn't do it nearly as often as "Romeo,"
though... In fact, I've only heard her do it once (at the Atlanta
Roxy, 17 Jan '91 - 2nd show, for those keeping track...) though I've
been told she's done it at least one or two other times. Anyway,
this is also a terrific song...
Hand in Hand.
The sky is crying
The streets are full of tears
Rain come down
Wash away my fears
And all this writing on the wall
Oh, I can read between the lines
Rain come down
Forgive this dirty town
Rain come down
Give this dirty town
A drink of water
A drink of wine
If I've been hard on you
I never chose to be
I never wanted no one else
I've tried my best to be somebody you'd be close to
Hand in hand
Like lovers are supposed to
As you'd sleep
I'd think my heart will break in two
I'd kiss your cheek
I'd stop myself from waking you
But in the dark you'd speak my name
And say, "Baby, what's wrong?"
Oh, here i am, baby
I'm coming back for more
I'm like a wave
It's got to roll into the shore
Yes, and if my love's in vain
How come my love is so strong?
If I've been hard on you
I never chose to be
I never wanted no one else
I've tried my best to be somebody you'd be close to
Hand in hand
Like lovers are supposed to
Supposed to be
Now, you and me, we go parallel
Together and apart
And you keep the perfect distance
And it's tearing at my heart
'Cause you never feel the distance
But you never tried to cross no lines
'Cause it's another dirty river
And another dirty scar
And I don't know who's kissing you
And I don't know where you are
So far from home
Won't you think of me sometime?
If I've been hard on you
I never chose to be
I never wanted no one else
I've tried my best to be somebody you'd be close to
Hand in hand
Like lovers are supposed to
If I've been hard on you
I never chose to be
I never wanted no one else
I've tried my best to be somebody you'd be close to
Hand in hand
Like lovers are supposed to
Well, the sky is crying
See, the streets are full of tears
Rain come down
Wash away my fears
And all this writing on the wall
Through the dustbowl
Through the debt
Grandma was a suffragette
Blacklisted for her publication
Blacklisted for my generation
Go go go
Raise your hands
Raise your hands high
Don't take a seat
Don't stand aside
This time don't assume anything
Just go go go
Feed the fire
Fan the flame
I know you kids can stand the rain
I know the kids are still upsetters
'Cause rock is cool but the struggle is better
Go go go
Raise your hands
Raise your hands high
Don't take a seat
Don't stand aside
This time don't assume anything
Just go go go
Did they tell you it was set in stone
That you'd end up alone
Use your years to psyche you out
You're too old to care
You're too young to count
Did they tell you, you would come undone
When you try to touch the sun
Undermine the underground
You're too old to care
You're too young to count
Author: Indigo Girls
Album title: Nomads.Indians.Saints
Girl with the Weight of the World in Her Hands
---- ---- --- ------ -- --- ----- -- --- -----
(Emily Saliers)
She won't recover from her losses,
She's not chosen this path, but she watches who it crosses
Maybe move to the right, maybe move to the left
So we can all see her pain she wears like a banner on her chest
And we all say it's sad, and we think it's a shame
And she's called to our attention, but we do not call her name
The girl with the weight of the world in her hands
We're busy with our happiness, busy with our plane
I wonder if alone she wants it taken from her hands
But if things didn't get any harder
She might miss her sacred chance to go a consecrated martyr
The girl with the weight of the world in her hands
I wonder which saint that lives inside a bead
Will grant her consolation when she counts upon her need
It makes us all angry though we feign to care
But who will be the scale to weigh the cross she has to bear -
The girl with the weight of the world in her hands
Is the glas half-full or empty, I ask her as I fill it
She said it doesn't really matter, pretty soon you're bound to spill it
With the half logic language of the sermon she delivers
And the way she smiles so knowingly at me gives me the shivers
I pull the blanket higher when I'm finally safe at home
And she'll take a hundred with her, but she always sleeps alone
The girl with the weight of the world in her hands
Lyrics reprinted WP/FYC by Trip N. Gregory
The saddest sight my eyes can see is that big ball of orange sinking slyly down the trees
Sitting in a broken circle while you rest upon my knee this perfect moment will soon be leaving me
Suzanne calls from Boston the coffee's hot the corn is high
And that same sun that warms your heart will suck the good earth dry
With everything it's opposite enough to keep you crying or keep this old world spinning with a twinkle in its eye
Get out the map get out the map and lay your finger anywhere down
We'll leave the figuring to those we pass on our way out of town
Don't drink the water there seems to be something ailing everyone I'm gonna clear my head
I'm gonna drink that sun I'm gonna love you good and strong
while our love is good and young Joni left for South Africa a few years ago and then
Beth took a job all the way over on the West Coast
And me I'm still trying to live half a life on the road
I'm heavier by the year and heavier by the load.
Why do we hurtle ourselves through every inch of time and space I must say around some corner
I can sense a resting place
With every lesson learned a line upon your beautiful face
We'll amuse ourselves one day with these memories we'll trace
Get out the map get out the map and lay your finger anywhere down
We'll leave the figuring to those we pass on our way out of town
Don't drink the water there seems to be something ailing everyone
I'm gonna clear my head I'm gonna drink the sun
Galileo's head was on the block
The crime was looking up for truth
And as the bombshells of my daily fears explode
I try to trace them to my youth
And then you had to bring up reincarnation
Over a couple of beers the other night
And now I'm serving time for mistakes
Made by another in another lifetime
How long till my soul gets it right?
Can any human being ever reach that kind of light?
I call on the resting soul of Galileo
King of night vision, King of insight
And then I think about my fear of motion
Which I never could explain
Some other fool across the ocean years ago
Must have crashed his little airplane
How long till my soul gets it right?
Can any human being ever reach that kind of light?
I call on the resting soul of Galileo
King of night vision, King of insight
I'm not making a joke, you know me
I take everything so seriously
If we wait for the time till all souls get it right
Then at least, I know there'll be no nuclear annihilation
In my lifetime, I'm still not right
I offer thanks to those before me
That's all I've got to say
'Cause maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime
Now I have to pay
But then again it feels like some sort of inspiration
To let the next life off the hook
But she'll say, "Look what I had to overcome from my last life
I think, I'll write a book"
How long till my soul gets it right?
Can any human being ever reach the highest light?
Except for Galileo, God rest his soul
King of night vision, King of insight
How long
How long
"Free Through Eternity" is an Amy Ray song from "Color Me Grey."
Free Through Eternity.
Soft in the morning
Love without warning
Peace 'cause there's no disguising it
When it's love, you can't hide from it
Now, I don't want to be the shadow
When you find your new life
I only want to hold you in the dead of night
But you don't have to search for me
You don't have to set yourself free
You are free through eternity
Now, I have learned to sing with a steady mind
Fill the void, and pass the time
And face this ground, and erase the blue
When I leave the scene, it all comes down to you
You don't have to search for me
And you don't have to set yourself free
You are free through eternity
Now I know it's gotta be hard to find
That blessed balance - that fine line
But turn around and bless me
Or let me go in peace
I can meet you halfway
And give you all you need
But you don't have to search for me
And you don't ever have to set yourself free
You are free
Eternity
Eternity
You are free eternally
"Finlandia" is a Sibelius composition, which the girls recorded on
their 1986 EP. Live versions are VERY infrequent, but they have
performed it as recently as last March.
Finlandia.
This is my song, O God of all the nations
A song of peace for lands afar and mine
This is my home, the country where my heart is
Here are my hopes and dreams, my holy shrine
But other hearts in other lands are beating
With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.
My country's skies are bluer than the ocean
And sunlight beams on clover leaf and pine
But other lands have sunlight, too, and clover
And skies are everywhere as blue as mine
O hear my song, thou God of all the nations
Won't have you see me as your sad sack
Lost my something and I can't get it back
Or a kill on your trophy rack
I checked my schedule now my train is rolling down a track
Past the sadness of the salt flats
To the prospect of the land fat
Or just a lazy orange house cat
On the sofa where I'll be put up
You've been the hole in my sky, you're my shrinking water supply
Before my well runs dry
I'm going round round round the bend
Fill it up again
I'd like to say that it was clear to me
Love triangle geometry
But in the end it's still a mystery
The placement of affection and the dissaray
I gathered up the courage that it took
Made that bed
I took one last look
And you could hear the pages flapping in the wind blown
Book of my days, my days
You've been the hole in my sky, you're my shrinking water supply
Before my well runs dry
I'm going round round round the bend
Fill it up again
One tank gone second thoughts are on my mind
What's this trip gonna cost me this time
The devil I know is starting to look awfully kind
But the new road is an old friend
Fill it up again
Hole in my sky, my sky, my sky
Hole in my sky, my sky, my sky
Hole in my sky, my sky, [my sky]
You've been the hole in my sky, [hole in my sky] you're my shrinking water supply [shrinking water supply]
Before my well runs dry [round round round]
You've been the hole in my sky, [the bend] you're my shrinking water supply [to fill it up again]
Before my well runs dry [before my well runs dry]
Before my well runs dry [well runs dry]
I'm going round round round the bend [round round round the bend]
On the night they killed Faye Tucker
I was gambling away my last dime
Well I pulled down the lever
And I sent up a prayer
That my luck would not be denied
My luck would not be denied
Roll out the head of Faye Tucker
And never you mind what they say
You may be reborn but its all just for scorn
And that's what you'll take to the grave
That's what you'll take to the grave
Well the minister wants you to live now
And the governor wants you to fry
And whatever it was that you thought might occur
They got something else in their minds
The got something else in their minds
If you live they gonna make you a campaigner
If you die they gonna make you a grave
Either way it goes down
Well your life's not your own
And that's why killin' don't pay
That's why killin' don't pay
I thought I heard the angel's bells
But they were just the hounds of hell
What did you learn Faye Tucker
What will take from this world
Well mercy could prove us
But nothing would move us
To rise above just being cruel
Fare thee well my bright star
I watched your taillights blaze into nothingness
But you were long gone before I ever got to you
Before you blazed past this address
And now I think of having loved and having lost
You never know what it's like to never love
Who can say what's better and my heart's become the cost?
A mere token of a brighter jewel sent from above
Fare thee well my bright star
The vanity of youth the color of your eyes
And maybe if I'd fanned the blazing fire of your day-to-day
Or if I'd been older I'd been wise
But too thick the heat of those long summer evenings
For a cool evening I began to yearn
But you could only feed upon the things which feed a fire
Waiting to see if I would burn
Fare thee well my bright star
It was a brief brilliant miracle dive
That which I looked up to and I clung to for dear life
Had to burn itself up just to make itself alive
And I caught you then in your moment of glory
Your last dramatic scene against a night sky stage
With a memory so clear that it's as if you're still before me
My once in a lifetime star of an age
So fare thee well my bright star
Last night the tongues of fire circled me around
And this strange season of pain will come to pass
"Fallin' Star" is an Amy Ray song. It appears on her early demo/
solo album, "Color Me Grey." It was probably written around 1984-6.
Fallin' Star
It's like an ocean tide
Slowly washing my shores away
It's like the sun above
Now, sooner or later, I'll have to face that way
Now she asks me how you're doing
And I tell her you're getting by
But it's pain and numbness
Side by side
You came on the scene
Like a star in the Northern night
She spread her love to you
Like the warmth of a Southern sky
And so it goes on
You know it's night and day
One always slips away
There's no one left to blame
Love falls down, you know
And your heart falls to pieces
And your soul might get lost along the way
All these songs, they used to make you shine
They are just lullabies for your nightmares
I don't want to shed your tears
I followed you Northern star
And I shared the fall with you
Now I felt the cold glow of the sunset
And I saw that liar's moon
Some of us will come down to earth
Some of us will burn
Love's not always as bright as it should be
Tell me, do you want to be free?
Well, your love falls down, you know
And your heart might fall to pieces
And I saw your soul get lost along the way
All these songs, now, they used to make you shine
They are just lullabies for your nightmares
And I'll sing them softly, now
Lately I've felt the warmth
Of the one who tore down my walls
But then I look at you
And your twilight consumes it all, it does
Now I wished upon your falling star
Praying I won't fall that hard
And that my love is all it seems to be
Because I'll swear it set me free
But Emily, I gotta tell you I understand, I understand
When your love flies away, well, honesty
That's about the best you can, the best you can do
But aren't you empty inside, aren't you?
You're looking at foreclosure
And doing time
And it don't sound good this time
And the wife that made your life Hell
All the time you were telling me
You were fine
Silly man
So I got your dog.
How is that?
I made it nice, I wrote a check.
You cut the weeds back on my drive
Cause you're a good guy
Deep down inside.
What makes a boy like you go bad,
What makes a man so lonely and sad,
That he'd poison all he knows
And in one year, just let it go?
And all that time you were telling me
You were fine
Silly man, silly boy
It's been you and me on this frontier
Trying not to be suburban pioneers.
Fighting off the pavers
And the associations
And the covenants against the trailers.
I remember how we used to laugh
At all those rotten men in "camo" drag
With their advantage and their guns
Up the deer stand shooting up a storm
And all the time
You were telling me all those lies
Silly man, I'm just a silly girl
There was a time
We could hibernate like bears
But we finally come up for air
And everything's all marked and cleared,
Survey flags flying everywhere.
Once you said to me
You know, what I'll miss the most
Is just being the only ones
With our dirt and our dead ends
I pulled out with the mountain Laurel blooming
On a dirt road that is soon to be paved
Down to the site of my original establishment
And the west end family grave
'Cause one day moves into two
(One day moves into two)
And I'm losin'
Everything except for you
(Everything except for you)
And I would sing you a song of devotion
(I would sing you a song of devotion)
Yeah that's what I should do
(That's what I should do)
Blood runs thick and when it rains it pours down
(Blood runs thick)
On the family tree on the fields of war
(The family tree on the fields of war)
I spend my time being broken hearted and grieving bound
(I spend my time being broken hearted and grieving bound)
Yeah I haven't much need to look forward
I just let a one day move into two
(One day moves into two)
I'm losin'
Everything except for you
(Everything except for you)
I would sing you a song of devotion
(I should sing you a song of devotion)
Book of days
(Book of days)
The way things lay
(The way things lay)
That's just space and time
(That's just space and time)
I gave it up
(I gave it up)
All for a love
(All for a love)
That won't be defined
(That won't be defined)
I've had enough temporary acquisition
Building fences for no gain
(Building fences for no gain)
Taking dead trees down before the winter freeze
(Taking dead trees down before the winter freeze)
I said let 'em rot and fall where they may
Just let one day move into two
(One day moves into two)
I'm losin'
Everything except for you
(Everything except for you)
Ah yeah
I would sing you a song of devotion
(I would sing you a song of devotion)
That's what I should do
(I gotta let them fall where they may)
('Cause one day moves into two)
It's the book of days
(I'm losin')
It's the way things lay
(Everything except for you)
Now that's just space and time
(I, I would sing you a song)
I gave it up
(Of devotion)
All for your love
(Yeah)
That's what I should do
(That's what I should do)
That's what I should do
(That's what I should do)
Yeah
That's what I should do
Dark clouds are comin' like an army
Soon the sky will open up and disarm me
You will go just like you've gone before
One sad soldier off to war, enemies that only you can see.
Dishes stacked, the table cleared
It's always like the scene of the last supper here
You speak so cryptically that's not news to me
The flood is here it will carry you
And I've got work to do.
Come on home, the team you're hitched to has a mind of its own
But it's just the forces of your past you've fought before
Come back here and shut the door
I'm stacking sandbags against the river of your troubles.
There is fire there is lust
Some will trade it all for someone they could trust
There's a bag of silver for a box of nails
It's so simple the betrayal
Though it's known to change the world and what's to come.
Just come on home, the team you're hitched to has a mind of its own
But it's just the forces of your past you've fought before
Don't you recognize them anymore
I'm stacking sandbags against the river of your troubles.
There's the given and the expected
I count my blessings while I eye what I've neglected
Is this for better is this for worse
You're all jammed up and the dam's about to burst.
I hear the owl in the night
I realize that some things never are made right
By some will we string together here
Days to months and months to years
What if everything we have adds up to nothing.
Come on home, the team you're hitched to has a mind of its own
But it's just the forces of your past you've fought before
Come back here and shut the door
I could paint you in the dark
Cause I've studied you with hunger like a work of art
These are very secret days
I collect my information then I stowe it all away
Call me when you breeze through to your appointments
The work you do
Call me, I'm collecting you
The pleading prayer and hairshirt sting
My hair-trigger love and faulty spring
Motivation smokes a name, but I don't like that smell applied to me so
Blindly just the same call me
When you breeze through to your appointments the work you do
Call me I'm collecting you
Turning up my collar to an unseasonal chill you ask a favor, you know I will
The rain comes a surprise we fly across the railroad ties
I feel the danger the foolish thrill oh yes I will
What it will or won't be then
The shutter pre development the ink full in the pen
Mind the mind's eye's trickery
You might picture killer beautiful much more than it might be
Call me tell me what you're up to what you'll do
Call me I'm collecting you
I would be foolish to think that I could turn it off and stay alive
The way I live when you switch on hand on the dimmer, give me just a glimmer
Give me just a shadow hope around the edges, agony and rapture forever uncaptured
Take these secrets to your grave
Drug across your landscape and buried in your cave
You're piling up and out of sight
But trying to add it up just feels like counting shades of light
Call me when you breeze through to your appointments what you must do
Call me I'm collecting you
Hang it in my window let it complicate my view
The separation the glass of you
But I can paint this picture any way that I see fit
"Cold as Ice" is an Amy Ray song from the 1986 EP. The last time I
heard it performed was in the early summer of 1991. The lyrics are
>from the EP lyric sheet.
Cold as Ice
I don't think you understand
The rhythm of my heart
There's a strong line to mind and soul
And I feel it tearing apart.
I've been searching for new words
To tell you in a different way...
When I told you I'd hang on forever,
I threw my choice away...
Chorus:
It's cold as ice, I can't let go
It's cold as ice, but I need you
r love.
And I wish I could have been the first one
Oh, to walk out the door,
But the more I find myself to blame,
The less there is to come back for.
You wish you could have been the last one
To tell me how you really feel.
When you closed the door, oh, deep inside my heart
It still seemed so sincere.
Chorus
If there's a message to this madness
Well it still seems quite unclear...
If I really need to save myself,
Why can't I just walk out of here???
There's a message in your eyes
And you make it perfectly plain,
Either I leave your heart behind
Or crack beneath this freezing rain.
Taking off his turban they said, "Is this man a Jew"
'Cause they're working for the clampdown
They put up a poster saying we earn more than you
When we're working for the clampdown
We will teach our twisted speech
To the young believers
Train our blue-eyed men
To be young believers
Judge said "Five to ten", I said "Double that again
I'm not working for the clampdown"
Well, no one born with a living soul
Could be working for the clampdown
Kick over the wall 'cause government's to fall
How can you refuse it
Let fury have the hour, anger can be power
Don't you know that you can use it
The voices in your head are calling
Stop wasting your time, there's nothing coming
Only a fool would think someone could save you
At the factory are old and cunning
You don't owe nothing so, boy, get running
It's the best years of your life they want to steal
You grow up and you calm down
'Cause you're working for the clampdown
And you start wearing the blue and the brown
'Cause you're working for the clampdown
So you got someone to boss around
Does it make you feel big now
And you drift until you brutalize
You've made your first kill now
I say in these days of evil presidents
Working for the clampdown
I said lately one or two have fully paid their dues
Working for the clampdown
Working for the clampdown
Hey, you are now
Working for the clampdown
Hey, you are now
(Working for the clampdown)
Kick over the wall
(Working for the clampdown)
'Cause government's to fall
(Working for the clampdown)
How can you refuse it
(Working for the clampdown)
Hey, get along now
(Working for the clampdown)
Laughing in a crown of jewels,
Numbness from a scepter's wound.
Toss and Turn, I spin and learn,
"Catch yourself before you burn."
A joker's dance before the king,
Jangling beads, a silver ring.
Close your eyes and bare the sound,
Jumping up-falling down.
Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling down.
Look yourself in the eye before you drown.
Royal rebels discover you.
Trust? you turn there is no truth.
And circle, circle, why are you scared?
Why a smile instead of tears?
I'm gulping smoke to fade away.
Figures floating down to lay.
Meet the joker and the thief,
The king and queen but-no relief.
Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling down.
Look yourself in the eye before you drown.
"The king is in the counting house, counting out his money"
{Look yourself in the eye before you drown. Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling down.}
Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling down.
Look yourself in the eye before you drown.
"The queen is in her parlour, eating bread and honey"
{Look yourself in the eye before you drown. Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling down.}
Falling, Falling, Falling, Falling down.
Look yourself in the eye before you drown.
"Mary had a little lamb"
I cross myself before I die
The leaping man, he asks me, "why?"
"Well your rhythm is off" I reply,
"Now you must dance the dance
That you imply!"
"Your actions will follow you full circle round,
Your actions will follow you full circle round,
Your actions will follow you full circle round,
Your actions will follow you full circle round,
The higher the leap, I said,
"Carry Me Away" is an Amy Ray song from "Color Me Grey."
Carry Me Away.
I called you up today to breach my sorrow
Carry me over the line to you
How long will it take to reach tomorrow
Seems like a whole lot of time
With just these thoughts to pull me through
I see blue carpet and cold moonlight settle in
Voices whisper down the hallway of how I should have been
I feel like I'm over the water, but I'm caught in the tide
Tell me, are you calling for me?
Does this come deep from inside?
Carry me away, under the water, over the line
Carry me away, under the water, over the line
The sound slowly fades and trickles away from the scene
It's only the windows of life
They hear my dreams
Walking the distance, I feel like I've been running for miles
Happy times don't last long
I finally got there and it's too late to smile
Carry me away, under the water, over the line
Carry me away, under the water, over the line
indian legislation's on the desk of the do right Congressman
now he don't know much about the issues so he picks up the phone
and asks the advice of the senator out in indian country
a darling of the energy companies their ripping off
what's left of the reservation
i learned the safety rule
i don't know who to thank
don't stand between the reservation
and the corporate bank
they're sending federal tanks
it isn't nice but it's reality
bury my heart at wounded knee
deep in the earth
i said cover me with pretty lies
bury my heart at wounded knee
they got these energy companies
who want to take the land
and they got churches by the dozens
trying to guide our hands
and turn our mother earth
over to pollution war and greed
well
bury my heart at wounded knee
bury my heart at wounded knee
i said deep in the earth
bury my heart at wounded knee
won't you cover me with your pretty lies
bury my heart at wounded knee
bury my heart at wounded knee
they got the federal marshalls
we get the covert spies
we get the liars by fire
we get the fbi
they lie in court and get nailed
and still leonard peltier goes off to jail
(the bullets don't match the gun)
bury my heart at wounded knee
an eighth of the reservation
bury my heart at wounded knee
it was transferred in secret
bury my heart at wounded knee
we got your murder and intimidation
bury my heart at wounded knee
my girlfriend anna may
talked about uranium
her head was full of bullets
and her body dumped
the fbi cut off her hands
and told us she died of exposure
yeah right
bury my heart at wounded knee
bury my heart at wounded knee
oh deep in the earth
bury my heart at wounded knee
won't you cover me with pretty lies
bury my heart at wounded knee
bury my heart at wounded knee
bury my heart at wounded knee
talk about a revolution
we had the gold rush wars
why didn't we learn to crawl?
and now our history gets written in a liar's scrawl
they tell me " honey you can still be an indian
down at the y on saturday night''
bury my heart at wounded knee
bury my heart at wounded knee
i said deep in the earth
bury my heart at wounded knee
and cover me with your pretty lies
bury my heart at wounded knee
bury my heart at wounded knee
bury my heart
it was an eighth of the reservation
bury my heart
it was transferred in secret
bury my heart
got your murder, murder, murder and intimidation
bury me
bury me
bury me
bury my heart
bury my heart
bury my heart
bury my heart
words and music buffy sainte-marie
I have spent nights with matches and knives,
Leaning over ledges, only two flights up.
Cutting my heart, burning my soul.
Nothing left to hold,
Nothing left but, blood and fire.
You have spent nights, thinking of me,
Missing my arms, but you needed to leave.
Leaving my cuts, leaving my burns,
Hoping I'd learn.
Blood and fire
Are too much for these restless arms to hold.
And my nights of desire are calling me,
Back to your fold.
And I am calling you, calling you from 10,000 miles away
Won't you wet my fire with your love, babe?
I am looking for someone, who can take as much as I give,
Give back as much as I need,
And still have the will to live.
I am intense, I am in need,
I am in pain, I am in love.
I feel forsaken, like the things I gave away.
Blood and fire
Are too much for these restless arms to hold.
And my nights of desire are calling me,
Back to your fold.
And I am calling you, calling you from 10,000 miles away
Won't you wet my fire with your love, babe?
I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love.
I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love.
I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love.
Blood and fire
Are too much for these restless arms to hold.
And my nights of desire are calling me,
Back to your fold.
And I am calling you, calling you from 10,000 miles away
I heard you sing a rebel song,
sung it loud and all alone.
We can't afford the things you save,
we can't afford the warranty.
I see you walking in the glare
down the county road we share.
Our southern blood, my heresy,
damn that ol' confederacy.
It took a long time to
become the thing I am to you.
And you won't tear it apart
without a fight, without a heart.
I'm sorry for what you have learned,
when you feel the tables turn.
To run so hard in your race,
now you find who set the pace.
The landed aristocracy
exploiting all your enmity.
All your daddies fought in vain,
leave you with the mark of Cain.
It took a long time to
become the thing I am to you.
And you won't tear it apart
without a fight, without a heart.
It took a long time to
become you, become you.
The center holds, so they say.
It never held too well for me.
I won't stop short for common ground
that vilifies the trodden down.
The center held the bonded slave
for the sake of industry.
The center held the bloody hand
of the executioner man.
It took a long time to
become the thing I am to you.
And you won't tear it apart
without a fight, without a heart.
It took a long time to
"Anyone But Myself" is an Amy Ray song from "Color Me Grey."
Anyone But Myself.
If you ever feel you'll lose your dreams
Or your hope seems too far on
I'll bring the distance to your door
You couldn't ask for any more
You were around when I needed a friend
You were the means, you were the end
You'll be the one I turn to now
Gonna be some hard times coming down
Without you, the world would be so crowded
Without you, the moon would be so clouded
Without you, I can be anyone
Anyone at all - but myself
If ever your candle won't blow out
Or your sorrow seems so interrupted
Well, I'll be the first to bring darkness down
I'll be the silence at your side
Without you, the music couldn't move me
The words would ring true, but the tune would seem so empty
Without you, I can be anyone
Anyone at all - but myself
But myself
Wish I was a slow moving sea
Moving away from the land so cautiously
I'd find me an island to surround
Just like you did as I was feeling down
As I was feeling down
Without you, the world would be so crowded
Without you, the moon would be so clouded
Without you, I can be anyone
Anyone at all - but myself
Wish I was a slow moving sea
Wish I was a slow moving sea
Love is like a slow moving sea
Keeping in touch with eternity
Wish I was a slow, slow, slow, slow moving sea
Andy do you love me do you think about it will you say
Turning brushwood into blazes turning summer grass into hay
Turning sharply past the graveyard to the lakefront with the black waves licking up the stones
To the swayed back screened in front porch who could ever stay the weight of flesh and bones
Andy aren't you tired from the sun and rain and river soaking you
From the beer cans on your dashboard and the bullet hole glass spiderweb staining your rear view
I have watched you watch an empty road is it only her upon which all of you's depending
To fill your twenty hour work day while all the fences in this county still need mending
And in the night I do my checking and fix the broken part with visions of rare beauty
But in my heart I know I'm second forever fixed in your pursuit it is my duty
Andy will you toss me a little scrap of something I can taste
Instead of dust from all the leaving and the smell of summer lying here to waste
Under the burnt pyre of all the cast away the tiny shoots will spring like questions will you take me
Out to the fenced field sprinkled with horses, wild in resistance to the taming will you break me
"Always Be There" is an Amy Ray song from "Color Me Grey."
Always Be There.
It was you who walked into my life
You were the one - you hear my cries of loneliness
Through my cool, cautious eyes
Can't you see me reaching out for you?
Can't you feel me there?
Won't you please believe me?
I could never touch you for the fear that I might never let you go.
It was you, with the courage and the commitment
To start your new life
You make me believe in mine
But can't you see the confusion through my troubled smile?
I'm torn between losing me
Losing me and gaining you.
Maybe I've been distant
Maybe I've been cold
But I've done it for my own existence
And I do believe - I do believe it's getting old.
I might never say that I love you
I might never say I care
But I will tell you now
Up on the airplane nearer my god to thee i start making a deal inspired by gravity if i did wrong i won't do it again i can be sweet and good and nice and if i had enemies they're friends i hold onto my life with the grip of a vice up on the airplane nearer my god to thee i start making a deal inspired by gravity that little spot on the ground is my hometown i like to call it my home and it's sweet i'd rather take a seat down there than a throne up here up above 30,000 feet and i'm up on the airplane i never should've read my horo- scope or the fortune on the bubble gum strip saying what you think won't happen will great thing to read before a trip on an airplane pilot says the big blue sky's like a swimming pool big fluffy clouds like a feather bed i'd rather have a real pillow underneath my head lying in my bed which is in my hometown which is on the ground far from an airplane far from an airplane up on the airplane up on the (i'll be making a deal) up on the (i'll be making a deal) up on the
