Cowboy Junkies

Atlanta's a distant memory, Montgomery a recent birth And Tulsa burns on the desert floor, like a signal fire I got Willie on the radio, a dozen things on my mind And number one is fleshing out these dreams of mine I've got 200 more miles of rain asphalt in...

(robert johnson) If I send for my baby and he don't come If I send for my baby, man, and he don't come All the doctors in hot springs they sure can't help him none And if he gets unruly, things he don't wanna do And if he gets unruly and thinks he won't...

King Richard came upon them 3000 I am told Slit their stomachs in search of jewels In search of Islams gold. On the road from Acre They're crucifying thieves Crows are pecking at their eyes While the hypocrites run free I've been told that you've bee...

I was forced to pay a bride's price I couldn't look the other way. She hooked me with her "fuck me" eyes, They still haunt me to this day. She says, "only you can know these secrets Buried deep beneath my skin, only your tongue Can uncover them." Yeah...

A candle burning for everything I've ever wanted A tattoo burned for everything I've ever wanted and lost I had a long list of names that I kept in my jack pocket But I've cut it down to one and your name's at the top Won't you share a common disaster? Share...

After twelve years of feeding Days spent barely breathing I'm worth only a few bags of grain Oh the shame, the shame, the shame So I'll take me beating Never once complaining Oh the shame, oh the shame, the shame After sixteen years hard labour He bum...

(Michael Timmins) The money would be pretty good if a quart of milk were still a dollar or even if a quart of milk were still a quart And the hours, well, I don't mind how they creep on by like an old love of mine it's the years that simply disappear th...

A walk in the park, there will be no bother Since we are not decision-maker Government is the chief dealer Oh, if they don't exist How can I burst into laughter A walk in the park, go look around from west to east It is so tough being a giraffe Can I ge...

He searched for those wings that he knew That this angel should have at her back And although he can't find them He really don't mind, 'cause he knows they'll grow back And he reached for that halo that he knows That she had when she first caught his eye Alth...

Are there angels in the wilderness? I don't know. I've got my doubts, but if you say so . But I've got a feeling we're doing ok. We're doing our part, to make the brambles seem less sharp. When you ask for bread, will I give you stone? Will I make you co...

Have you ever seen a sight as beautiful As that of the rain soaked purple Of the white birch in the spring? Have you ever felt more fresh or wonderful Than on a warm fall night under a mackerel sky The smell of grapes on the wind? Well, I have known all thes...

Now, baby, please don't go Now, baby, please don't go Now, baby, please don't go Back to New Orleans You know I love you so You know I love you so Well, you got me waiting here You got me waiting here Before I'll be a dog I'll make you be alone Oh, baby, plea...

[Intro:] Ohhh-o-o-yeah oh -oh yeah [Verse 1:] Ring-Ring-Ring, it's the same thing Always call me up-Yo gurl how ya been? Now I can't breathe, your smothering me - with lovey dovey stuff that I don't need Please please please won't you tell me, what happe...

Speed river at my feet running low and flat I'm sitting here burning daylight, Thinking about the past And that distance out there Where the earth meets the sky The slightest move and this river odd Pulls me further down John's at my side, but he's sitt...

She was found beneath the gate, Forsaken at the gate. Who would have thought that so much love Could be so carelessly misplaced. Found. Beneath the gate. We gazed upon the moon, A honed and whetted moon. Wondered if you saw the same An hour from your...

Betty Lonely lives in a duplex of Stucco On the north bank of a brackish river Her ears omit noise from a nearby airstrip Her mind floats beyond the snapper boats Betty Lonely, her green eyes are roughly staring At a point through a sliding glass door H...

(Michael Timmins) Black eyed man he took the blame for the poisoning of the well They found this shoes by the pulley They found his fingerprints all over the pail Black eyed man I'm warning you the people around here will not be fooled by a simple lin...

Where'd you go my blue eyed saviour Where'd you go my darling one Lying on that field of honour Not sure what you're waiting on And she won't let him through the door Her mind is ticking through those tumbling years The one's he promised he'd be there fo...

I wish I had a blue guitar, A blue guitar to play all night long. Singing songs of loss and love. Singing songs till morning comes. Ghosts in the basement Screams from the kitchen I tell you folks I'm leaving. Seems I can already hear the door slammin'...

La, la, la La, la, la La, la, la I only want to stay That if there is a way I want my baby back with me 'Cause he's my true love my only one don't you see? And on that fateful day Perhaps in the new sun of May My baby walks back into my arms I'll keep him be...

I only want to say That if there is a way I want my baby back with me 'Cause he's my true love, my only one, don't you see? And on that fateful day Perhaps in the new sun of May My baby walks back into my arms I'll keep him beside me forever from harm You se...

Mouths to feed, shoes to buy Rent to pay, tears to dry Brand new world I can't relate Let us choose To not participate Open up Let me wander in Your heart is not Such a tender thing Brand new world I contend Only love Will stop the withering...

Well I'm lyin' in my bed, a tangle of arms and legs, But the one that I'm with is not the one bouncing 'round my head. I could turn this into song or cheap fantasy, But whatever I've ignited will still burn in me. Bread and wine, bread and wine, your hear...

Hear them buzzing in the trees A lot like us a dying breed One voice now is all we need Hear them buzzing in the trees Hear them buzzing in the trees Nothing left but empty shells No memory now of where we fell No one left to truly tell The tale of ho...

I want to walk away Like Judas from the table. Turn my back And walk away. I want to close my eyes Like that novice at the altar. Bow my head And close my eyes. Sorrow took Love's splintered hands And waltzed her 'cross a painted floor. Whispered s...

If I pour your cup, that is friendship If I add you milk, that is manners If I stop there, claiming ignorance of taste That is tea If I pour your cup, that is friendship If I add you milk, that is manners If I stop there, claiming ignorance of taste Th...

(Michael Timmins) The stillness here, like what he sometimes finds inside her, hits so hard it can steal your breath forever He sometimes wonders is the sum of their lives together him on the floor and her lost to a mind in tatters These days he's dri...

Here's the story of a dying man Told by a friend of mine. He said that he heard it from a friend of his Who was a real close friend one time. One night he chose to choke his wife Until the light that was there turned cold. He'd heard some stories 'bout h...

Baby hit the back door breathin' real heavy said the boys in the alley wouldn't leave her alone Mama did her make-up in a terrible hurry she finally got ready but the boys were gone Mama don't you worry, night's approachin' there's a hole in heaven w...

I went to the crossroads fell down on my knee I asked the Lord above me for mercy "Save Bob, if you please" Standing, standing on the crossroad Yeah, I try to flag a ride Don't nobody seem to know me just everybody passing me by I went down to the cr...

If you've gone, made up your mind 'bout leaving tomorrow Take it all but leave my cutting board behind I can see my way ahead, I reach this closed doorway Try as I might I can't find my way behind If you've gone, made up your mind 'bout leaving tomorrow...

Here's a man of sorrows, children As constant as the sea Searching for a heart That's lost it's stone. She moves like a serpent, baby Through time she drags her tail Of all the broken hearted Left behind. Let's just sit here a little bit longer With...

Stuck in that dark hole again. Someone throw me a ladder On which I can depend. Someone give me a handhold To help me ascend. Someone give me a reason To start up these walls once again. Lost in those gray clouds again. Trying to punch my way through...

The beautiful is not chosen. The chosen becomes beautiful. The beautiful is not chosen. The chosen becomes beautiful. Please do not forsake me now, Sparkling gone With darkling says I drift at times I know it's true But I always drift on back to you....

(Mick Jagger and Keith Richards) Well, when you're sitting there in your silk upholstered chair Talking to some rich folk that you know Well, I hope you won't see me in my ragged company 'cause you know I could never be alone Take me down little Susie,...

September skies, Bodies falling Never again will you catch me admiring Those vast september skies. October skies, Hate is flying. Crimson leaves slowly falling From azure october skies. Time to kill our children And sing about it. Let's all kill ou...

I had a man, who's good and kind in his way Yeah I had a man, sweet and kind in his way Lord, he died and he left me and I sing the blues on every decoration day Lord I was standing, standing 'round my baby's bed Well, my Lord, my lord he take my baby aw...

Can't lose the taste of this river mud, Black water in my lungs. They say you can't step in the same river twice Well I've been stepping in this river seems like most my life. So sharpen up those dragging hooks Tie that sheep shank tight Cast into the r...

I hope that I'll find what I'm reachin' for The way that it is in my mind I hope that I won't be that wrong anymore And maybe I've learned this time Someday I'll get over you I'll live to see it all through But I'll always miss dreaming my dreams with you Bu...

(Michael Timmins) The way you kissed me this morning it told me that you soon would be going You didn't even look in my eyes when you said goodbye And last night in your sleep you broke all the promises that I knew you would never keep Now I'm reading...

There's a rock and a field and a dirty sky. I'm still as corpse, I'm content as a bride, Thoughts of you and those flyin' shoes All around me. One wrong step and it's a long way down So I triple check the hand holds, stand on firmer ground, But it's not...

I am a man And I am self-aware And everywhere I go You're always right there with me I flirted with you all my life Even kissed you once or twice And to this day I swear it was nice But clearly, I was not ready When you touched a friend of mine I th...

Look under his floorboards, Mama, I don't trust his silly grin He's got a beat-up Rambler, Nebraska plates, and I ain't getting in I don't like the way his pinky ring picks up the dashboard light or his short little piggy fingers or the way his belt is...

They tell me God forgives you for almost anything you do They tell me God forgives you for almost anything you do Well, if that's the case, that's the case I think I'm going to kill that man Then drop down on my knees Well, this morning, God knows, that...

To Hunting Ground from City. That's where my baby took me with her smile. To Hunting Ground from City. I never thought that I'd have to retrace those miles. It's been a while since I've seen that smile Appear upon her face And now I find I'm slowly drift...

Too many years on the rinks of Montreal. Too many years in the lofts of old TO. Too many nights in the bowels of Avenue B. Too many days in the arms of Lady T. Or maybe I'm just getting old, 'cause, fuck, I hate the cold. Too much time in the bed of a p...

You can talk about your neighbor You can grab him by the collar You can hurt him only if he hollers "let me go?-let me go" But we all know that's old-fashioned And it can only lead to pain Where we might end up on the corner Taking handouts in the rain...

If it ain't one thing I tell you it's always another I wonder why I started treating you like a step-brother Love is hard to explain I know my loss is someone else's gain Sometime's love is like a bitter pill But we just have to take it like it is So...

If you offered me a shade of blue would I return it saying that it was too dark or light? Or would I see it for the precious thing that it might one day be? Hold on to me If you offered me a point of view would I dismiss it saying that it was too blac...

She hugged his head so hard to her heart it made her gasp for air If this was not the way Love felt then for love she did not care I want to run beside a moving train yelling farewells in the rain The tears will be bittersweet, 'cause I know I'll see hi...

You throw away the gun Did I tell you what's to be done I need it to kill just one And you said, "I cannot sit sadly by your side" And you said, "I cannot sit sadly by your side" I try to push open the door Just to see what came before But there is a b...

(I did it all for you) She took his dentures from his mouth And placed them in her own. Took a shovel from the shed And then dragged him from their home. (I did it all for you.) Left a note tacked to the door, "Paid in full" is what it said. High abov...

Well i don't wanna be a soldier mamma, i don't wanna die Well i don't wanna be a sailor mamma, i don't wanna fly Well i don't wanna be a failure mamma, i don't wanna cry Well i don't wanna be a soldier mamma, i don't wanna die Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no...

Breaking away to the other side I wanna make sense of why we live and die I don't get it, I don't get it I ask my friends if they understand They just laugh at me and watch another band They don't worry, they don't worry Lookin' for a way to lose my lo...

He says, You will never know There are no rhymes to do you justice." And he will sit there, outside, Until you no longer doubt his purpose. So, I let him in. I opened the door, and let him in. Yah... I let him in. Opened my heart... Some wounds will n...

A drift of wild turkeys In the field across the way. I'm standing, staring, waiting For those coyotes to make a play But they never do. So I move on. A pack of wild children In the field across the street I'm standing, staring, waiting For the bell t...

Hear the lonesome whippoorwill His song's too blue to fly The midnight train is a-winding low I'm so lonesome I could cry I've never seen a night so long When time keeps crawling by The moon is gone behind the clouds To hide his face and cry Have you ever se...

Just outside there waiting. Just outside the circle. Waiting for that finger to point your way. Just keep running. Just keep running. New ones quickly burning. Old ones die away. Fires lit to say goodbye or hello. Which way you looking? Which way you l...

Whether it starts with an earthquake or the tears of a few grieving women I don't know On the road to gathering looking for someone to roll away the stone he stands alone in her room as the commotion slowly decays I don't know she's on her way to some...

If you were the woman and I was the man would I send you yellow roses would I dare to kiss your hand? In the morning would I caress you as the wind caresses the sand, if you were the woman and I was the man? If I was the heart and you were the head wou...

It doesn't really matter anyway It doesn't really matter anyway Singer brought her to tears But they were my words not hers What I said or didn't say, no It doesn't really matter anyway Singer brought her to tears But they were my words not hers What I said...

It's heavy down here. Pressure building day-to-day, Everyone's got too much to say. It's heavy down here. It's heavy down here. Thunder clouds roiling in the late afternoon, Old Man rising from his noon day snooze. It's heavy down here. It's heavy do...

You file me with the libertines I fold in line My monthly dole of magazines Beaming bistro shines In my ladle is your plum And my daily staple of your cutesy crumbs Of your cutesy falling crumbs I saw you at the snazzy din, din You made me sad that I...

He left his dead in the cottonwood trees the ground grown too hard with the years Falling down was not what it used to be the ground grown too hard with the years He told his children those little white lies the truth would only paralyze them He told hi...

Man thinks 'cause he rules the earth He can do with it as he please And if things don't change soon, he will Oh, man has invented his doom First step was touching the moon Now there's a woman on my block She just sit there as the night grow still She say who g...

It's a funny start But I have no home I have no name I have no one Except this little dark heart Fate playing her part I have no one And I'm not one to say But she has a way Of winding that thread She has a way Now there's this little dark heart F...

She says, "I'm getting that lonely sinking feeling, you know what I mean?" With his hand on her back he's thinking, "Where does that leave me?" Just when I think I've uncovered the secret to peace and tranquility that lonely sinking feeling creeps up on...

(Townes Van Zandt) Well, won't you lend your lungs to me? Mine are collapsing Plant my feet and bitterly breathe up the time that's passing Breath I'll take and breath I'll give and pray the day's not poison Stand among the ones that live in lonely indec...

The last of man's great unchained beast lies lappin' at my door The last of man's great unchained beast lies lappin' at my door An' I'd be happy to give it what it wants But I do know it would just ask for more I search for you with every crest I ride In ever...

Early this morning, he knocked on my door Early this morning he knocked on my door I said "Hello, Satan, I believe it's time to go" Me and The Devil are walkin' side by side Me and The Devil are walkin' side by side Well, I'm goin' to beat my man until I...

We are miners, hard rock miners To the shaft house we must go oil bottles on our shoulders We are marching to the slow On the line boys, on the line boys Drill your holes and stand in line 'til the shift boss comes to tell you You must drill her out on...

I said "Mama, he's crazy and he scares me But I want him by my side though he's wild and he's bad and sometimes just plain mad I need him to keep me satisfied" I said "Papa, don't cry cause it's alright And I see you in some of his ways Though he might not gi...

You speak your love You turn, are gone What kind of love You thinking of Can you tell me how this mountain got so high Moments worth The price of myths Lifting from our fingertips Reaching for the next hand hold on the wall How'd this mountain get...

Notice the fall of the city Please watch it closely The sun outside shining The moon also hanging The years start to gather Your dreams start to tatter Your tears busy fuelling this song I'm singing tonight Through those hopeless nights I wander alone...

My little boy on the kitchen floor (my little basquiat) Stick men fighting stick dinosaurs (my little basquiat) Colours leaping all over the mat (my little basquiat) The kitchen floor is where it's at For my little basquiat One day He'll be golden M...

Keep it coming I've got your back Do not fear When I'm on deck A bigger lie I've never told A bigger story yet to unfold My only guarantee: i will f**k you up Another day Of pure energy What wears most Is the constancy A bigger job I've never had...

Betrayed? It's the question That I am asking. Or just a lucky one deceived by too much love. Confused. Is the issue. I'm in need of high rescue. Another lucky one stunned by too much love. My wild child She's my salvaged shipwreck. My wild child she'...

Hold on honey, there's a new dawn coming and a big bird to sweep you away Are you born yet? Are you listening? Are you sick of staring at the walls? Are you hungry? Are you angry? Are you wondering if there's anyone at all? Hold on honey there's a new...

No birds today Just this square patch of gray Molting sky moving in on its morning prey No words today No one knocking at the gate I lost my name long before I lost my way I wonder what he thinks out there Pastures turn from black to green and black a...

[Traditional] No more my lord No more my lord Lord i'll never turn back, no more I have found in him Many resting place And he has made me glad No more my lord No more my lord Lord i'll never turn back, no more. Jesus, the man i am looking for...

My love swears that he is made of truth I do believe him though I know he lies I've caught him creeping 'round darkened holes I've caught him staring at distant skies I would have seen it coming but I'm blind with age Too much time on the battle line Shut it...

Now I know, now I know what it means to be broken Now I know, now I know what it means to be bared You in the chair perceptibly sinking I'm on my knees once again made aware of the world out there Grief is a word to describe the absense of feeling Now I...

Is it getting better Or do you feel the same Will it make it easier on you now You've got someone to blame You say one love one life When its one need in the night one love we get to share it It leaves you baby if you dont care for it Did i disappoint you Or...

Abandon all those precious things. one soul now Carry only what twilight brings. one soul now Watch the colour drain from the sky. one soul now Stillness settles, glides on by. one soul now I don't understand how these things move the way they do. C...

(Michael Timmins) The hoods are up on Pine Street, rear ends lifted too The great-grandsons of General Robert E. Lee are making love with a little help from STP Their women on the porches comparing alibis Greasy eggs and bacon, bumper stickers aimed t...

Fifty miles from Dakota territory Cheyenne scalp hangs from his belt Found him alone washing in the Bighorn a steady aim and he bagged his game Pale sun falls without contest Here is obedient darkness He will not return White Cadillac, white man at th...

Especially with my head pounding and lying helpless in my bed I long for you and your expert hands To ease this white heat from my head And you would boast that you knew All the pressure points inside And you could just as easily kill me Beneath the de...

Look out, Mama, there's a white boat coming up the river, with a big red beacon and a flag and a man on the rail I think you'd better call John 'cause it don't look like they're here to deliver the mail And it's less than a mile away I hope they didn't co...

Meet me on the banks of the Yangtze, Suzie 'Neath the glare of the New-West Yard We'll watch the barges cart away The waste of another day We'll watch the barges cart away The waste of another day Meet me in the middle of Renmin Park Where the stone br...

Meet me on the banks of the Yangtze, Suzie Beneath the glare of the New-West Yard We'll watch the barges cart away The waste of another day We'll watch the barges cart away The waste of another day Meet me in the middle of Renmin Park Where the stone b...

(Michael Timmins) She captured both Rock and Bird tied one to the leg of the other kept them as prisoners until they knew who was master then she threw them to the sky Bird with unbarred wings disappeared Rock with weighted heart returned and Rock be...

Well, I'm sorry for my lack of communication But as I'm staring out this fifth floor window It seems like the least amount of communication is better Oh well, what am I supposed to say? There's a bloody effigy on my wall And the complimentary carnation i...

Haven't seen the sun for seven days November's got her nails dug in deep Haven't seen my son for seven years and the chances are we'll never again meet If truth be told I don't even know his name If truth be told he doesn't even know my name I spend my...

Time slips away And the light begins to fade And everything is quiet now Feeling is gone And the picture disappears And everything is cold now The dream had to end The wish never came true And the girl, starts to sing Seventeen seconds A measure o...

Don't the moon look pretty Shining down through the trees Don't that shining moon look pretty, baby Shining down through the trees You know I can see my baby When he can't see me Yeah, I tiptoe to his window Just to see my baby snore I tiptoe to his window...

I've seen you outside my window. It's those dark seeds that bring you in. I don't know if its hunger or habit, But I'm big on the idea of sin. And you will sing in my meadow. And you will sing in my home. I'll be the one out there listening And you'll...

Merciless nature, human and mother walk this land Each through the arm of the other Their tithe they count in millions In a Land that loves its villains So calculating it parses a man Between the hand that held the dream And the sword being held by the...

I've been told that it's just the way life goes. Once the wildest river is now a trickle to the sea. The peak we risk our lives to scale becomes dirt beneath our feet. The wisdom of a life time always disappears untapped. Paradise once given will always be...

Someone Out there Kneeling. No one Out there Listening. But what I want to know Before you save my soul Is who gave this power to that fucker up there? Someone Out there Crying. Someone Out there Waiting. But what I want to know Before I l...

One foot strands before the crib the other by the casket A question formed upon stilled lips is passed on but never asked I guess I believe that there's a point to what we do But I ask myself is there something more besides you? Two are born to cross...

(Michael Timmins) The flies have quit their buzzing Even Bear has stopped his barking They all sense something brewing up the James and headed this way Bobby sips his morning coffee Says 'Have you finished with the funnies? Looks like a storm's coming...

Speaking confidentially the fire that burnt inside of me has turned to ash the tortured tree that grows beside the anguished sea Speaking confidentially Speaking metaphorically the earth I trust beneath my feet is moving now ever so slightly I shift m...

Now it all begins Or continues to Spiral down Spiral down I've laid it out on paper Instructions of what to do As my mind begins to waver Losing contact with you Now it all begins Or continues to Spiral down Spiral down Look upon the self Loo...

Sitting in a square room My voice is freezing And the beams that are bouncing off the moon Are hanging from my window like icicles Just a tired old alcoholic, waxing bucolic Shivering and homesick Staring at a wooden floor Staring at a wooden floor L...

I live only here, between your eyes and you But I live in this world. What do I do? Collect no interest - otherwise what I can. Above all I'm not that staring man. I move like a spirit, between this world and that The weight of them both square on my bac...

New Jersey Turnpike Riding on a wet night 'Neath the refinery's glow Down where the great black river flow Licence, registration I ain't got none But I got a clear conscience 'Bout the things that I done Mister State Trooper Please don't stop me Pl...

Here we stand at the end of paths taken Guiding light inspiration, the slow decline The crumbling foundation, the stations and now the cross But we're still lost, we're still lost Settling now once again What was begun will meet it's end Running now, ti...

Up on the bluff, where I wish I was Twistin' up the pages of history My cold feet danglin', my bony arms gesturin' To summon up little chunk of that history In the corridor the shadows are long And it messes with my equilibrium And there's strains of a...

Stranger here Face down in the river floating by A backwards sky Stranger here, hung by the neck Jeered by the crowd Stranger here, stranger here And I could tell you about the time I was looking for a rhyme Communing with the planets above I am the...

Sun comes up, it's Tuesday morning Hits me straight in the eye Guess you forgot to close the blind last night Oh, that's right, I forgot it was me I sure do miss the smell of black coffee in the morning The sound of water splashing all over the bathroom The k...

Anyone who's ever had a heart Wouldn't turn around and break it And anyone who's ever played a part Wouldn't turn around and hate it Sweet Jane, sweet Jane Sweet, sweet Jane You're waiting For Jimmy down in the alley Waiting there For him to come back home Wa...

Take me to the river and we'll watch the water roll Take me in your warmth and you'll fill my empty soul Come on and take me, take me, take me Come on and take me, take me, take me Take me to the ocean where the water never run Take me in your love...

"The air in here smells like piss and beer The sweet cycle of life", Georgie E would say. Thirteen grandchildren gathered around Looking down into the ground. "A slow descent into darkness, I deserve no less", His last words carried like an offering Upo...

(Michael Timmins) Mornings feel so damn sad these days without the call of the 8: 15 That old familiar echo has finally died away leaving nothing but a chill where there once was a mighty scream And I've watched the flat cars take away our timber I'...

Eyed it, dried it, untied it Chilled it, spilled it, refilled it Taste it, traced it, erased it He's my post to lean on And I just cut him down So I'm out to land on somethin' Hopefully a boy will come to me at the ground Eyed it, dried it, untied it...

Jesus, sweet Jesus if you're listening Can you pass me to your pa? I'm having a hard time understanding Why he's so cruel and demanding with his love Darling, sweet darling keep whispering I'll find you through this din Sitting and watching Two flames...

Stars of our stars. Dreams of my dreams. You come to me Singing " The Stars Of Our Stars". The stars of our stars Came up the first day. The moon did set. The sun comes up. And all the stars did disappear. Stars of our stars. Dreams of my dreams....

Another note afloat upon this paper sea Explain to me How this can be Another face erased From this tidal pool Found one day Then swept away I will carry you my love If you can carry me Through this summer of our discontent Another day away From...

Caught in the vice of heaven and earth he turned his life into a cell imprisoned by the doubts which hound us all and those desires which we all know so well His days he lost to promises, his nights he purged of dreams and he would wake in the hours befor...

This street holds it's secrets like a cobra holds it's kill This street minds it's business like a jailer minds his jail That house there is haunted That door's a portal to hell This street holds it's secrets very well That man wears his skin like a danc...

Try to find the reference It makes no difference to me. Draw your own conclusions, Add to my confusion if you please. The time for concessions And midnight confessions is long gone. I'll sit here in the silence And wait for all the violence to engulf me...

Place my body on the funeral pyre Cut it loose to float downstream Leave it frozen on mountain top Suspend it high to be picked clean You said never to grow old But you forgot to tell me how You said never to grow old And then sank your teeth into thos...

Here we all are at the end of "the century of beauty lost". We greedily ate what you gave us, the rest we tossed. We've trapped all your rivers, paved every pass, Pulled at your sky till we caused it to rip. But you've got Jimi Hendrix so lets call it an e...

(Townes Van Zandt) Columbine Music ASCAP Won't say I love you babe Won't say I need you babe But I'm going to get you babe and I will not do you wrong Living's mostly wasting time and I waste my share of mine but it never feels too good so let's not...

I buried him down by the river 'cause that's where he liked to be And every night when the moon is high I go there and weep openly He and I were married By this river 'neath this willow tree And with God and friends witnessing it He pledged his life to...

You're clean as A widow woman's washboard, son, Stick it in the wind. Put the mountains to your back The great plains on your grille Time to take a little spin. Boulder looks like the type of town That I could spend some time, But in Houston they got o...

[Traditional] He was just a blue-eyed boston boy His voice was low with pain I'll do your bidding commrad mine If i ride back again But if you ride back and i am dead You'll do as much for me Mother, you know, must hear the news So write to her tender...

(a curly blonde disaster Lying out there) He said, "you make me feel As desired as a crackling fire." She said, "I saw a man out walking Upon still waters... (I want to lie beside you In a warm bed, Feel your heart Beat in my throat.) ...and no...

I was walking after midnight Yeah, out in the moonlight The way we used to do I'm always walking after midnight Searching for you I'm always walking after midnight Searching for you I stop to see a weeping willow Crying on his pillow Maybe he's a-crying for m...

He sits alone in his perfect shack the lake beside him freezing the sun no longer shining much past four o'clock. We are the selfish ones We are the lucky ones We are the needed ones She falls asleep, the book on her lap, “all things change to someth...

We hovered with short wings Over the hillock crest A breath-like [Incomprehensible] Glowing, showing bones Glowing, showing bones With much bellowing and rowing A change of directioning let you out Deaf and loud Let you out A hungry, hungry awful h...

West of Rome Just east of the border in a staticy Ramada Inn Polishing his boots and pummelin' his liver Steeped in his dark isolation Just what business does, he have around here Credentials are wearing out with each little bit of cheer Yes, it's a bad...

When the bottom fell out There wasn't any doubt I just suddenly found myself free falling And from such a height The wind it had a might And it took all my might to fight the fright And falling spread eagle Must of formed an airfoil or some kind of wing...

There's a young man in the corner playing 'Crazy' all night long Quarters piled high upon the table And he orders wild turkey and with a quick wit and a smile He says, "My darling, you're the one I'll drape in sable" But his baseball cap and his barroom rap t...

Raise a white sail if you love me a black sail if you don't Seal me up in an impregnable tower or surround me with an impassable moat I've heard all the stories told about love (unattainable and pure) but there is one love of which I'm sure Your fear a...

Of all the lives to live why this one? Filled with could-have-been. No fun. Countless nights of anxious frustrations. Of all the lives to live why this one? Of all the souls to meet why these two? One, old and dark, furious as a shrugging ocean. The oth...

(Michael Timmins) She says, 'it's cold where you brought me' He says, 'Darling, don't worry you can stay in my arms until the springtime comes We'll let the snow drift around us and wait for the robin and the crocus to tell us that our love has again f...

There are witches in the hills Calling my name Sayin', "Come, join us sister Come, kiss the flame Come, dance in the moonbeams Ride the night winds Make love to the darkness And laugh at man's sins" I shiver with delight I shiver with fear My heart wants to g...

Working on a building, a Holy Ghost building For my Lord, for my Lord If I was a drunked I'd tell you what I'd do I would quit my drinking and work on that building too Working on a building, a Holy Ghost building For my Lord, yeah for my Lord If I was a li...

Oberheim, Yamaha, Steinway and the lot I must of played the wrong piano 'Cause it left me with I don't know what So don't talk to me about mistakes Yes, we all simply have got to take precautions I musta played the wrong piano 'Cause now I just, I just...

(Mary Margaret O'Hara) Yet Courier/BMG Songs Inc ASCAP How could he take you in his arms and help you to be free then leave you forgotten and is it enough to cry? When you're so broken... Her cold eyes tell you you're not welcome she tells lies but y...

It's the kind of night that's so cold, when you spit It freezes before it hits the ground And when a bum asks you for a quarter, you give a dollar If he's out tonight he must be truly down And I'm searching all the windows for a last minute present To pr...