Eilen Jewell

That little cupid, he’s a real sharp shooter I don’t believe he’s got an arrow and bow People all think he just couldn’t be cuter But I saw him down at the gun show He appeared to be about two years of age A really freaky thing to see He was bragging about hi...

My heart is a poor bird, weary and worn With no place to perch in this orchard of thorns And steel blades and jagged, it’s cold now and torn It’s hungry lord and ragged it’s weary and worn Oooh codeine arms, Wrap around me safe and warm Under the light of you...

Darlin’ when you told me you were leavin’ I thought that you were only foolin’ me But here I am to face old blue tomorrow With a broken heart that’s filled with misery It seems that my world is to an end Just dreamin’ of things that might have been Oh why don...

Though my way is rough and rocky And the night is bitter cold Still I see a warm light Ahead on down the road Down the road Down the road I know I’ll be guided onward down the road, down the road The winds they may be howling And my cares too much to hold Yet...

Well I’m going away my baby I’m gonna leave you honey now Well that train passed by when you lay sleeping I’m gonna write you a letter on a dusty boxcar wall The only two things a gambler needs Are a suitcase and a trunk And the only time that he’s sati...

Twisted up mind Tangled up sheets Drunken down bottles Broken down streets Everywhere, everywhere I go Everywhere, everywhere I go I can’t get it right Can’t set it straight Trouble follows me To both my gates Waits like a dog and hangs around Turns three tim...

I’ll never love like I did before Don’t call my name no more I’ve gone and closed the door So don’t call my name no more If you said you’re sorry now It wouldn’t matter anyhow I ain’t never gonna come around And it won’t matter anyhow I’ll take back all thos...

Well these cheap white walls Call out for a drunken scrawl But tonight is a static screen I don’t feel or do anything Anything Thirst is deep when you’re not dry Hurts worse with a dull knife Light me up and turn me on Just don’t play that same old song That...

I’ve seen your sad towns, Too barren for ghosts Empty silos on state highways Five o’clock light, signposts I’ve seen your old tracks Like scars on your hands Giving nothing to no one Dried vines, iron brands For dollar bills our great green hills Sink down...

Stolen from the desert In the lost part of the state Just a half-broke horse He waits by the gate No bridled horse can stand him Or any of his kind Their hidden laws condemn him They’re so rigid and refined He watches on the edge Dirty coat, shaggy mane Too...

I stood next to the tracks Just to feel something pushing back Tearing through each doubt and sin The train was an iron wind I climbed down underground To listen for a new sound Found a river underneath our feet Dark and silent, deep I’m an old guitar, won’t...

The echo of his footsteps in the street And the drip-drop of tears on my cheeks Were the only sounds on that sad dark night When my loving baby said goodbye We used to stay home every night We lived a quiet, happy life But now if you’re looking to find...

If you were here with me You would love the stars I see Ancient city in the sky You would love the way they shine I know just how you’d be looking at me With that smile that says why be melancholy If you were here with me If you were here with me If you were...

If my man asks ‘bout what I’ll do Now that he’s turned me loose Tell him I’ve gone to meet all the girls And drink all that high shelf booze The high shelf booze, the high shelf booze You won’t catch me dead with no blues The high shelf booze, the high...

Wind carries wildfire, wind carries the seeds Wind will carry my love home to me It drove him away on a southern breeze Wind will bring my love home to me The sun brings the daylight, sun brings the heat Sun will bring my love home to me It drove him away wit...

I’m hooked On the way that you look A fever I never shook I’m hooked I’m caught Up in the way that you talk Like a high voltage shock I’m caught I’m stuck on you Like a new tattoo Like a duct tape suit I’m stuck on you I’m hooked Line, sinker, the whole wor...

I remember you You were full of broken bones I tried to bring you cigarettes You said just leave me alone I remember you You were locked in a padded room I tried to teach you solitaire You just hollered at the moon I remember you I remember you I remember you...

I’m walking the long road to Georgia, That long road that’s taking me back Gonna live in the hills, far away in the hills, And I’m gonna dress in black Way high in the hills in Georgia, I’ll live in my old tin shack Nobody I’ll see and no one will see me And...

I know it’s not easy To say goodbye But I’ll be back soon darlin’ And everything will be all right So keep your chin up And dry your eyes We’ll meet again Somewhere down the line Another day another highway An endless ribbon of blue My life is a long road Wi...

If sweetness had a sound It would sound like my hometown The summer sprinklers turning on The endless ice cream song Cold river rushing by The ducks and geese in flight The silence in between All the sights unseen It would sound like my hometown If sweetness h...

Just one horse shy of a one-horse town This ain’t the first time it tried to burn itself down And the American girls in their American dreams Never put themselves here, so undone at the seams Seven bars, one church, heaven is no match for hell In these four b...

Well the shape I’m in I’m a sight for sore eyes Been rung out and hung out Strung out on the line And all the girls they line up At the bar downtown Everybody’s waitin’ For somethin’ to go down But I’m just passin’ through Don’t pay it no mind And I’ll be no...

Well, something’s in the air Burning hot and sweet There’s a man over there Sittin’ in the street I’m over here With a rusted forty-four Sittin’ on the steps Of your back door It’s one of those days Well, the only thing that moves Is the laundry on the line...

I wish I was holding you, My arms enfolding you Making you high as the summer sun You’re my only one Baby why am I missing you When I ought to be kissing you Tell me our love has just begun You’re my only one Only one Don’t make me the sad and lonely one Onl...

I drive through that town sometimes Just to see if you still live there I think I see you once in a while I practice looking like I don’t care I see you parked out front And I slow way down Without thinking about it I check to see if you’re around But that’s...

Pages fall like drops from melting eaves Pages underfoot like autumn leaves While I search for the words to make things right Buried words always hidden from sight I don’t know how to tell you all that’s here In my flooded mind just the wrong way is clear Eve...

The day I was born a gypsy looked at me She told my mama she could easily see Just how bright my future would be For I was gonna be royalty No crown will sit on her poor head A barstool will be her throne she said Instead of riches and finery She’ll have a we...

There’s only one constant in this whole world That’s nothin’ ever stays the same Someday my life will be over And no one will remember my name That’s all right, ‘cause what’s in a name, And who needs another one to memorize anyway Make no fuss over my grave J...

You drive me wild Like a crazy child You leave me breathless You don’t pay me no mind It’s all you all the time You’re selfish My heart isn’t safe With you at the wheel You don’t care if it breaks You don’t care how I feel You better watch the next turn We’re...

Well it’s a rich man’s world, a rich man’s world And who am I in it Who am I in it Nothing but a lonely rambler girl A lonely rambler girl Misfit, mismatched, not a penny to my name Trying to get to someplace that doesn’t look the same Look the same Someplace...

This place plays tricks on me I don’t know why I’m here So peaceful and serene But it only brings me tears, Good lord it only brings me tears My bad luck boots And my hard luck hand My coal black thoughts Reappear, reprimand And hold my head To the silt, to t...

You picked up a broken bottle In case anyone gave us any trouble And we walked all the way back to Cortez You sang help me dear doctor At the top of your lungs You’d been soaking up drink like a sponge Little boy down the street We all heard you mournfully C...

You won’t even look my way Is there nothing I can say To make us how we used to be When you won’t even notice me Tell me what came over you To make you act so untrue You said you’d love me endlessly Now this is how it’s gonna be Well it’s gonna be a sea of t...

When you move in right up close to me That's when I get the shakes all over me Quivers down my backbone I got the shakes down my knee bone Yeah the tremors in my thigh bone Shakin' all over Just the way that you say goodnight to me Brings that feelin'...

When you move in right up close to me That’s when I get the shakes all over me Quivers down the backbone I get the shakes in the knee bone Tremors in the thigh bone Shakin’ all over Just the way that you say goodnight to me Brings that feelin’ on inside of m...

A lucky horseshoe in a pile of junk An old gold strike returned to the dust A hot rod decaying in the thorns and the weeds Some things weren’t meant to be Some things weren’t meant to be Daisy seeds planted in paint chips and ashes Of yesterday’s sages and dr...

Oh songbird in my darkest night You sing so sweetly I can’t be afraid Over my path your song casts a light So bright, so real I won’t lose my way I set true north by you And so all directions too Songbird what did I do before you What did I do before you Oh...

Where’d you go last night with a rose in your hand You were quite a sight in the road I understand Did you go see someone I know Is she pretty, do you think so You didn’t see who watched your way, You’ve no idea, do you, what you’ll say Say you’ll be mine, te...

My baby waits by the river He says come on home When I’m done with my rambling That’s where I’m going All of the people in the city Wish they could take it slow Time stands still in the country That’s where I’m going Leave a light in the window I’ll find my...

We wove a sticky web in a dirty little game And I was hypnotized All your bad juju and all your weird voodoo Made me go blind There was nothing there but the shell of the girl You left behind But I wasn’t seeing, I just wasn’t seeing Somehow I missed the warni...

Been all around this world Just to come back to you Oh my love My sweet love It’s a long and lonesome highway It’s a bitter shade of blue Oh my love My sweet love And I never had much money I never been quite satisfied But you can weave the unraveled strings...

You've come to tell me something you say I ought to know That he don't love me anymore and I'll have to let him go You say you're gonna take him oh but I don't think you can Cause you ain't woman enough to take my man Women like you they're a dime a dozen you...