Joe Henry piosenki

It wasn't peace I wanted So it wasn't peace I found, I wouldn't stand for reason And it never would sit down. The bird upon my shoulder Has not one kind word to say— My eye is on the sparrow, But she looks the other way Carry on, and me away, Hey, lo...

I could have sworn this was the way when we started down I thought we'd left a light on dear but I can't see it now I can't even find the chance when it's right here in my way La la la la la la But I remember tomorrow like it was yesterday I remember tom...

Bring me the head of John the Baptist Show it round and shine His cloudy, marble, crossed and final eyes Once more into mine. Give me a leg up high enough To see beyond this wall, To be the first to see the victors take the gate Or to be the last one s...

Tell the hour: go take another, Or go down, Moses, without a fuss Give in to the lawless water And send a later boat for us Sticks and stones, blood, ash, and bone, I shake the tree, swim out alone: Turning over the dark Missouri Now that every new lea...

Don't tell me to stop Tell the rain not to drop, Tell the wind not to blow Cause you said so; Tell me love isn't true It's just something we do, Tell me everything I'm not But don't tell me to stop Tell the sun not to shine Not to get up this time,...

I've been having wicked thoughts Terribly wicked, selfish and cruel, Imagining I stood high on a ledge And fell just out of the reach of you; Just then, we are together alone As I fall, you look up— Looking for all the world like for once It was you, no...

I keep wooden boxes like traps strung with wire In the light of old tires, piled on the fire Wearing their smoke like a flower in bloom Cut like the thread in a pipe fitter's room; I dig in the dirt and yank at the root Of the shadow's dark vein in a sto...

There's a suit on my frame like a shadow of birds Stitched all together by a murmur of words That hang like a moon in the thread of the air And speak with the sound of my every prayer There's a light at the end of the evenings that bring A fire that only...

In a scene from better times Your traitor hangs up right there next to mine. The afternoon shakes down the trees Like they owed it money –hey buddy, please: Get in line— Their promise of green fruit is gone, It's bruised out there on the lawn; He who ca...

Can you tell Is that dog tied? Are your hands that cold now Or is it mine? Time ago, it was on Meeting Street, You pulled me close to you; Now you ask "which way row here?" Like it was mine to choose. Cover me in the dining bell Where the pool is sta...

Nobody knows the man that I keep hid Nobody knows the man that I keep hid He's raised my face like a pirate's flag A phantom nation's tattered rag Nobody knows the man that I keep hid Somebody used my mouth laughed out loud Somebody used my mouth and la...

The dark great river bends below me, A void of light now tells me so Where tiny towns crowd its shoulders, Between the world and all I know … Thunder rolls beneath my feet And mountain clouds slide just for show Flashing green along the border Between t...

Well, they've torn up the streets and Burned off the fields, And turned all the dogs to the woods; They took up the cross But they lost the third reel And the picture was just getting good; Evening is crawling, Summer is Lost - They're dragging the pon...

On the afternoon That the revolution began, I was in a hotel pool with another kid And an Australian business man. And nothing there would make you say After all so much talk, today would be the day... Nothing but an upset tray Left by the pool This af...

I'll have to be As brave as you With no star to guide us Blazing above; And no moonshiner's river To carry us through And no way to speak When there aren't words enough Fair enough, You asked me for nothing Fair enough All you told me was true, I...

Oh this is my favorite cage It grows up around me like silver strands Of briar and roses, wisdom and rage To cradle my heart like a bird in your hand Of briar and roses, wisdom and rage This is my favorite cage It grows up around me like silver strands...

If you fear the angels above while you sleep Then I'll be the blood, you paint on your door Your dream is a worry that nothing will keep, But time is a story and there will be more Your dream is a worry that nothing will keep, But time is a story and ther...

You wild beasts and you creeping things Get down in your place, Down with all the absolutes God's awful grace. Who wants to see this coming? Who wants to think you do? Better to be blind when I'm Falling for you Go and tell old Pharaoh His time has c...

Now that fires have been contained These ashes are of our own making, Clouds hang up on radio towers And sirens sing one song for hours Here begins the fitting end To what we'd started over When tomorrow is October Tomorrow is October A masquerade of c...

The floor will have its way, it seems It fights me like a trampoline It won't let me on the ground So this time I'm not coming down This time I'm not coming down I've been talking in my sleep You once kissed me not to hear me speak You loved me just so...