Indigo girls

From the bowery to the brimstone I tried to find your heart The drugs of initiation, the bottom of a barrel that drops I understand your causes sympathize with motivation All the details of this war are just self-infatuation 1 2 3 Nothing's for free 4 5 6 Pic...

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 he...

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 Cause I can be sweet and good and nice And if I had enemies their friends I'll hold on to my life with the grip of a vice And I'm up on the...

It seems like a long time, But it's been no time In the course of a lifetime Since you're gone The crack in the window Is that how you got through? Dogs howl, is that you? The setting sun You took a wild rose, from Alberta Brought it East to press u...

There must be some kinda way out of here Said the joker to the thief I want to tell you now You know there's just too much confusion And I can't no I can't get no relief All these businessmen they all drink our wine And the plowman well he dig my earth And you...

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 le...

I wasn't looking To shift my direction My eyes straight ahead Hands ten and two The gravity Of our first connection Veering off the road And into you And all the people drive by slowly Gawking at the scene Of the smoldering inevitable Spark and gaso...

"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 ther...

Manys a 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 fa...

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...

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 e...

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...

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 you...

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 fore...

Leavin' ain't fair, you know Partin' 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 Growin' up free, growin' up wild If you wanna know the secret behind the smile...

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...

I cried the night you left me I never cried so hard I never felt so helpless Except the night that we made love From beauty to disaster I held you in my arms Long enough to reach around you To keep my fingers warm Through egos, bars, and pills You k...

i heard you sing a rebel song sung it loud and all alone we can't afford the things you say we can't afford the warranty well i see you walking in the glare down the county road we share our southern blood my heresy damn that old confederacy it took...

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...

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 Leav...

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 C...

i am sorry that i set my sights on the things i read something meant for your husband maybe you left it under the bed once upon a love those words blew free and secret the pages lay around drifted to the hands of the publisher and the greedy gene...

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 s...

caramia blank notebook and a back pocket fade you used to mock me sometimes i would cry when i was home later cause you hurt my feelings why why why (why why why) you said write it down in your notebook my wanna be harriet the spy and some say your g...

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...

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...

You dug a well You dug it deep For every wife you buried And planted a Cedar tree The best The best you ever had I stand where you stood I stand for bad or good And I am green And you are wood The best The best he ever had I dig a well I dig it...

laughing in a crown of jewels numbness from a scepters wound toss and turn, i spin and learn "catch yourself before you burn" a joker's dance before the king jangling beads, and silver rings close your eyes and bare the sound jumping up - falling down...

All the girls with anorexia are on the street tonight and the boys in the band think they look just fine and i dont 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 you...

I am an only child born of the wild Riddled to spend my time defending the land You are the 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 I'm co...

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 mor...

Taking off his turban they said is this man a jew Cause theyre working for the clampdown And they put up a poster saying we earn more than you When were working for the clampdown We will teach our twisted speech To the young believers Train our blue-eyed...

i'm trying to tell you something about my life maybe give me insight between black and white and the best thing you've ever done for me is to help me take my life less seriously it's only life after all yeah well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable...

(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...

I don't think you understand Oh the rhythm of my heart There's a strong line to mind and soul I feel it tearing apart I've been searching for new words Gonna make you understand in a different way When i told you i'd hang on forever I threw my choice aw...

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...

i could paint you in the dark cause i've studied you with hunger like a work of art and 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 col...

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 i...

I’ve come a long way I was a show on ice Dazzling and brittle But subject to the sun And then one day I went little by little Back to the water The place where I’d come from And I went under Like stones tied in a sack And I got emptied And started...

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...

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 suppe...

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 n...

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 di...

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...

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...

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 th...

sitting in darwins theory and you're down in the 48 i'm practicing politics your practicing guitar and staying out late how'd we get so turned around why did we make it so hard why can't we cut it out tender give us something good to remember hey my my...

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 ye...

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...

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 beach...

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 everyth...

We were down at Dead Man'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 for...

We talked up all night And still 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 hous...

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 losing Everything except f...

You're looking at foreclosure And doing time And it don't sound good This time They found the meth And the scales And the wife That made your life hell And all that Time You were telling me You were fine Ah silly man Silly man So i got your dog...

she's got a case against me a jury of my peers and the rage of the righteous screaming in her ears i'm not dignified anymore i can't say i didn't call i say i love you she don't hear me anymore and don't give that girl a gun i said now don't give tha...

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...

well 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 traveling on and...

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...

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...

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'v...

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...

Three streets off the grid, we were barely kids But we were old enough to drink in Louisiana We listened to ‘The King Must Die’, ‘On the Willows’ drank the wine We could afford from the work study manna Were were young but not that young To be cutting ou...

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...

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 all around the table the white haired men have gathered spilling their sons' blood like...

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 sce...

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 a...

on the night they killed faye tucker i was gambling away my last dime yeah 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 so roll out the head of faye tucker yeah well never you mind wha...

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 or...

Findlay Ohio, 1968, poking hot tar bubbles With a stick on the driveway Grammy’s a Republican, Nixon is her man In 2 years time, Ohio will be up in flames I like the smell of the trash and leaves Burning in the cans Roger is the boy next door he’s a wan...

This is my song Oh 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 My dreams my holy shrine But other hearts In other lands are beating With hopes and dreams As true an...

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 t...

You know all them sweaty boys hanging out at the copper mines You watched them growing up the bridge on the river shoals off ga 9 They used to lay their sweet bodies out just waiting on a fishing line Just like your daddy did when he was a kid in the wilds...

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...

Well I guess that I was lonely Thats why I called you on the phone Cause in a moment of forgiveness I didnt 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...

Looking through some photographs I found inside a drawer I was taken by a photograph of you There were one or two I know that you would have liked a little more But they didn't show your spirit quite as true You were turning 'round to see who was behind y...

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...

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 searc...

I'm harboring a fugitive a defector of a kind And she lives in my soul and 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 And you say this is not what I bar...

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 tim...

I'm gonna clear my head I'm gonna drink that sun 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...

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 rig...

There's a letter on the desktop That I dug out of a drawer The last truce we ever came to In our adolescent war And I start to feel the fever From the warm air through the screen You come regular like seasons Shadowing my dreams And the Mississippi's mighty B...

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 load...

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 g...

think i'll bag that trip for two 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 did not forsee all the deals i made don't matter if i can't just let you be gone again gone again t...

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...

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 bette...

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 w...

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 o...

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 All with hope, all with hope That emptiness...

As I lay my burden down In the cradle of an elegy In the shotgun shape of this life I'm happy happy in the sorrow key Hadrian's wall was mighty Not so mighty it didn't fall Ii roamed among its sod and stone To wonder how we come apart The earth it hol...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 and whe...

I went all the way to Paris to forget your face Captured in stain 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 bo...

well 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 hide 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 saving all my money or my brea...

Let's not drag this out Everything's in motion Though I've only ever loved you kind And with devotion Remember when I met you You were leaving from the start I thought one day you'd probably just come home And break my heart It's funny what you know...

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...

When we tried to rework all of this Each to her rendition We 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 t...

Well you followed me this far Did you find out whats inside Can you tell me what Im doing Is it something I should hide I dont know for sure I dont wanna find out what I left there for Im not scared and Im not lonely Saving all my money or my breath Im not lo...

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 m...

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 migh...

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...

They say if it ever was it’s in there still You can dig and fill and never will be full Trying to get that good again Your last fifth of jack or cigarette The time you be the farm before you lost it all You want that feeling Back you go against the win...

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 If you...

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...

It's alright forty days of rain The skin stretched our from the growing pain It'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 on...

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 ha...

we are climbing jacob's ladder we are climbing jacob's ladder out of these boxcars and out of these chambers out of the bed where we lay with ten strangers we are climbing jacob's ladder we are climbing on jacob, jacob's ladder it's a fish white b...

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...

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 and you were only joking you were only joking brother we talked about o...

I left my anger in a river running highway five New Hampshire, Vermont border by College farms, hubcaps, 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...

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...

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 mu...

for you i would tattoo me with lines crossing into a hand and a heart that would never bleed with the twilight and the horse drawn on my arm standing for an addiction pray we go unharmed here is my love and anger you see now these are my gods these...

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...

You can go to the East to find your inner hemisphere You say we're under the same sky baby don't you realize honey it's not that clear I'm not your promised land, honey, you know that I'm not! I'm not your promised one I'm not the land of Canaan, sweethear...

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...

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 these are the last tears I'm gonna cry for you You take things so much easier than I do And you cou...

there comes a time eventually when the cold black water goes under the bridge so I say yes we can meet up it's been too long and life goes on and I can do this you wanna thank me for everything you've learned for what went wrong and how I've paved the pa...

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 f...

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 whos never shined my shoes Through security and to the train That will take me to th...

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 energ...

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...

Oh eve Where is adam I see (oh eve) You've been kicked (you've been kicked) Out of the garden (out of the garden) And i said Oh eve (oh eve) Where is adam (where is adam) Now you've been kicked (now you're kicked out of the garden) Out of the ga...

Another night in a succession Thinly glued with beer and wine Its 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 shad...

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 b...

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...

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...

Back in the long Stretch of loneliness That I have come to call a living I'm getting something For this love's labor Even when I am forgetting (we oh) And oh we oh oh (we oh) (we oh) Little perennials (we oh) (we oh) Where'd you come from Daught...

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...

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 You know that's what I've said to myself But then I start to tremble And I'm lost t...

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 go...

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...

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 could afford the wide world spins and spits turmoil and the nations toil for peace but the paws of fear...

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 togethe...

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 one more step away from the american dre...

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...

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 i...

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 t...

Crossroads Seem to come and go The gypsy flies from coast to coast Knowing many, loving none Bearing sorrow, having fun But back home hell always run To sweet melissa Freight train Each car looks the same All the same No one knows the gypsys name N...

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...

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 a knockin at your door b...

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 pe...

So money made you mean That's not how it's supposed to be You're ready to challenge and defend Yeah but for all the wrong reasons How much do we really need A question if you have to ask Just means what it means The question that says everything Right...

(handed down and made by hand) 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 thinki...

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 nashvi...

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...

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...

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 b...

we blew off immigration the moon was sittin high we drove from la candona into comentine and gloria was singing and cecelia closed her eyes and i saw them drifting out over the night sky i said neuva senoritas are you gone to brighter days have you f...

Well me and Johnny on the road seeing rainbows doubled and looking for a pot o’ gold But for every farm in Technicolor green there’s a bruising sky, beneath we’re just maggots on the asphalt road Well every place has got its history, and you’d erase if it’d...

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 m...

Oh, Ozilline, the moon is almost full And you don't need a torchlight 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 (Pleasure's what...

Peace Child, in the sleep of the night, in the dark before light you come, in the silence of stars, in the violence of wars - Savior, your name. Peace Child, to the road and the storm, to the gun and the bomb you come, through the hate and the hurt...

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...

honey pick the red corner shoes the ones that hardly ever get used i knelt in front of my whole collection and 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 p...

I meet you for coffee We get together periodically and I got a bad case i can't shake off of me The fevered wandering 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...

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 lap along the shoreline The buried forest of a man made lake Cemeteries are laying underneath it Your hear...

Welcome to why the church has died In the heart of the exiled, in the kingdom of fate. Who owns the land and 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 st...

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...

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 Five miles out of the city limit we're singing And your hand...

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...

my place is of the sun and this place is of the dark and 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 and i do not feel the romance i do not catch the spark i don't know when i noticed life was li...

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 But go go go...

well i woke up this morning grey dawn with a prayer on my breath see i lost something precious and god'll save me from losing myself i said i think i know what's wrong i think i know what's wrong now i met the queen and i understand why why she close...

It didn't happen for you No one wants to hear the truth Coming from three political queers Plucking the punk rock bloom So you break up the band And leave us all in tow Yeah now we gotta figure out Where to go I caught it at a rave (did it give you v...

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...

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...

A lovestruck Romeo Sings the streets a serenade Laying everybody low With a love song that he made Finds the streetlight Steps out of the shade Says something like: "You and me, babe, how about it?" Juliet says: "Hey it's Romeo, You nearly gave me a...

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...

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 Sc...

Scooter boys and Argentinians Europe shed the blood of the Indians Here I sit in the land of plenty Crying about my own virginity Hey blue blood you're nothing new See I come from privilege too A chapter in the book on the Americans And your just anoth...

Secure yourself to heaven hold on tight the night has come Fasten up your earthly burdens, you have just begun In the ink of the night I saw you bleed, through the thunder I could hear you scream Solid to the air I breathe, open-eyed and fast asleep Falli...

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've done i say let's put on some tunes sing a long and dolittle all day go down to the riverside take off our shoes...

115 you are 17 Itchy trigger and venomous You're growing longer you're growing stronger So shed your skin babe now shed this Come on over now Come on over baby Tell me it's holy holy I don't know what it is come on over now Let's call it the fullness...

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 arou...

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 heading down to georgia so don't lose track of where you've been and where you're going now who you've seen and what they lack and...

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 Th...

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 w...

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 (effortlessly) now i grip the wheel...

I caught every red light on the way to catch you But that train’s pulled out, been long gone anyway There was no note in frost on the window Second thoughts or hidden signs It’s not like you stole off in the night From the weight of something you just cou...

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 th...

She packs her bags to leave everyday And you just wait for it to pass You hear that patience makes a better man So you just wait to understand 'Cause you don't want to write that song Where you done her wrong She can't take you back One where she just...

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,...

I come to you with strange fire I make an offering of love The incense of my soul 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 Th...

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...

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'...

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...

Texas was clean, just an oilman’s dream A slate that I’d never written on Dust blowing’ round a lonely town Boots on the board of a barn As far from the south without getting out The corner of my heart All this born in the powder and the horn The feat...

'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 t...

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 ot...

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...

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 w...

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 y...

They called you the rise of the black messiah like so many boys before you And they’ll be more, more to follow threatening and hard to swallow I’m sitting underneath that hanging tree, just me and the ghost of the KKK Poor man’s gallows in the middle of th...

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 t...

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 go...

the thin horizon of a plan is almost clear my friends and i have had a tough 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...

I brought my tree down to the shore The garland and the silver star To find my peace and grieve no more To heal this place inside my heart On every branch I laid some bread And hungry birds filled up the sky They rang like bells around my head They san...

They won't have me but I I love this place The rural life is broken and The farmlands gone to chaff My hands are idle and my Mind needs rest And the toll of the decent And the sleep of the best I sit in diners with all The old men and they They talk...

It's a fish white belly A lump in the throat Razor on the wire Skin and bone Piss and blood In a railroad car One hundred people Gypsies, queers, and David's Stars This train is bound for glory This train is bound for glory This train is bound f...

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 them all unfold It's been a warm winter and a cold spring Everywhere I've been has felt wrong to me...

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...

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 i...

from baby to best with no second test these little storms destroy you here is the fame they promised to give you taking the place of my hand now well did you try to be true what separates me from you now what separates me from you did you borrow the s...

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...

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...

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 oh what i want to know is are you kind now it's a buck dancers ch...

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 We are not a bunch of upstarts Just out looking for a cause We hunger for our justice And not applause We don't just make...

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...

some will strut and some will fret see this an hour on the stage others will not but they'll sweat in their hopelessness and their rage we're all the same the men of anger and women of the page they published your diary and that's how i got to know you...

we use to walk in each other arms "it was 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 was too much repetition (over and over and over again) you know we're past the point of sane...

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...

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 Twiste...

the girl's known trouble the wind's to blame it blew her to anytown usa that's my middle name and where we go remains nameless a motion picture alive and framelss and we are together finally and the dog caught up with the rabbit is laughing hyster...

welcome me to your city of angels devil prophets still hold my hand i walked your stillborn streets for hours ethnic echoes spitting out their trials they tell me i'll be the first to praise the sun the first to praise the moon the first to hold the lone...

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...

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 stone...

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'...

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 somethings got to give Down at the high tide Passe...

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 o...

Wysteria Did you change your face again Those of us who loved you when Cant 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...

i was downstairs in the green room waiting for you to appear i said hello to your family i said hello to your friends i said hello to the situation never yields now it's easy for me to tell you that my love for you is sincere but i once stumble...

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 and me of the 10,000 wars Dividing life into factions of pleasures 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 im...

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 you were trying to save face You say that I don't care I don't care You can...

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...

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 conversation brief we can't find a clear connection and i can't get relief why don't we both agre...