Lucy Kaplansky

As I walk through this wicked world Searching for light in the darkness of insanity I ask myself is all hope lost Is there only pain and hatred and misery And each time I feel like this inside Just one thing I wanna know What's so funny 'bout peace Love and...

You can have my heart, it isn't new It's been used and broken And only comes in blue It's been down a long road It got dirty on the way If I give it to you will you make it clean And wash the shame away You can have my heart If you don't mind broken...

I am so cold, I want you to heat me I am so tired, I want you to carry me I am so torn, I want you to mend me I am so quiet, find words for me chorus: But I'm old enough to know Old enough to understand All these things I've carried here Belong in a c...

Seventeen years she has been in this world Wide-eyed and wistful, pretty little mormon girl She don't know I'm wicked, and she don't know I'm old Sweet Jesus forgive me but she gets in my soul 'Cause she believes in the future and the family tree And she...

Snow bound siren in the winter dawn There's a blizzard blowing in from off the river It's ten below out on these city streets But the feeling in your heart is even colder The sunrise screeching down the line And the fog banks running out of time But you...

Two shinning kids climb up a mountain They stop the stars and start to count on One's my good one, one's my bad one One's not so good, one's not so bad High above this little town I drive delivery truck around And I pound on my crying radio Boys and gi...

Don't mind me, I'm just a, a bit maniacal about you And derailed when I'm without you, don't mind me Don't mind me, if you could love me just a little it'd be okay 'Cause I couldn't leave you anyway, don't mind me It doesn't matter what you say, I just li...

Remember when we were hand in hand Remember, we sealed it with a golden band Now your eyes don't meet mine You've got a pulse like fever Do I take you for a lover or just a deceiver Simple is simple, plain is plain If you leave me now, you won't come ba...

Tear me out of you, come on, try Tear me out of anything, come on, try Give me a little light A mirror and some smoke I am an amulet, wish upon me If you can find me If you can see me If you can love me, if you can love me Edges between us join and h...

I used to hear him sing in a Bleecker Street bar On that tiny stage with a borrowed guitar His voice cut through like a speeding car Tearing through the deals of the brokers at the bar Then he sold everything for a Wall Street wage A rich man's money is a rich...

I was your knight in shining armor I was honor, I was rage But I was nothing 'til you showed me My armor was a cage Then we were no more boy and girl We were a woman and a man I thought I knew, but now I understand All of the dreams that ever dreamed...

Five in the morning, lying in bed Listening to the thunderstorm in her head Looks around the room as she opens her eyes Pictures on the mantle of a life gone by She's been sleeping a long time Quiet now, everyone still asleep She can feel her heart beat...

Remember when they took him in the middle of the night And nobody told you where he'd gone? Death in with morning light and touched your father's hand In a hospital uptown, where your mother sat alone For two weeks, no one told you, as if it never happene...

Sleepless nights don't bother me at all And if dawn comes I won't worry Something deep inside keeps me awake I wish that you were here right beside me I recall when I was very young And I could not fall asleep My father sang me songs to make me tired B...

Guilty as sin I know where you've been Guess she was alone last night You took what you want Now it's all gone I was just another free ride And I just needed something Really next to nothing And all I've got is another one That won't be mine As if...

Guinevere in my castle in Normandy Make a new home with me come follow me down Guinevere all my honor and glory Will just be a story of the fall of the crown Am I some dancing Lancelot who only falls in love With a woman who belongs to someone else Is it just...

Go to sleep my darling Lay down upon your bed May the rhymes of childhood songs Dance inside your head When night time falls around you I know that you're afraid But the heart will bring you home again The heart is built that way The heart will bring...

Hole in my head, hole in my head I need a boy like you like a hole in my head I need a boy like you like a hole in my head Let's just say, we will and then don't instead Wild goose chase, wild goose chase You're gonna take me boy, on a wild goose chase...

I had something, it fell from me Something strong like a pounding drum Like ringing bells when I was young I had something and it was gone I had something, made me walk all night Made me run from home, made me fight I had something, made me feel alone...

I have words in me that I need to tell you, There are times in my life, when I know what I want, I walked away once before, I won't walk away again, There are promises you keep because you mean them. (CHORUS) I'm a world away from you tonight, but I fee...

Go away from my window Leave at your own chosen speed I'm not the one you want, babe I'm not the one you need You say, you're lookin' for someone Who's never weak but always strong To protect you an' defend you Whether you are right or wrong Someone t...

It's not the altitude That takes my breath away And makes my body think the air's too thin It's not the bourbon, you've been drinking That burns like autumn leaves against my skin It's just you, you tonight And the music you heard in me somehow It's ju...

Late afternoon back in New York town Waking up as the wheels touch down Pick up my guitar and walk away Wish I was going home to stay Line of taxis, I wait my turn Tar and asphalt, exhaust and fumes Beside the road on a patch of ground Taxi drivers are...

This news wont break my heart Its already been blown apart I feel like a helpless girl In this tender troubled world Another bomb lights up the night For someones vision of paradise But its just a wasted sacrifice That fuels the hate on the other side...

Joe threw another tantrum He could not to be understood He cries like baby Samson His English is not good Joe's boss of the kitchen But on the outside he knows Low man on the totem's Wearing giveaway clothes Joe he fights the good fight He wears a w...

So cold today Wind is blowing You turn your face away Can hardly see where you're going Walking downtown Eighth Street, Washington Square Stepping carefully In the footprints someone left there While the city all around you Becomes only paper thin...

Answer me when I call to you What became of the life I knew Tell me why I can't be free Tell me what you expect of me I'm so down about it I can't sleep at night I sit watching the bugs As they bounce off the light Answer me when I'm calling out Tel...

Woke up scared in the middle of the night He reached for the bottle and turned on the light Looked at the clock, this can't be right I'm not dreaming Turned on the TV and the radio Elvis rocked and Elvis rolled While Jesus on his radio show Said pack y...

Let me sit beside you, take a good long look at you I'll memorize you, so I always find you Smiling at me in my rear view In the broken white line that takes me from you Promise me you'll wait for me And kiss me one more time Give me all your lonely nig...

Won't you scratch my itch sweet Annie Rich And welcome me back to town? Come out on your porch or I'll step into your parlor And I'll tell you how it all went down Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels And a good saloon in every sin...

In night, inside, at night No whispers, no worries, no words Just light fills the corner of your eye Take me in, take me in Cold sky, dark Montana, long road Running fence, radio, trucks blow by Up high, no air, big dreams Take me back, take me back...

Out on a secret journey I met a holy man His blindness was his wisdom I'm such a lonely man You will see light in the darkness You will make some sense of this And when you've made your secret journey You will find this love you miss And as the world...

It's raining in my house tonight Roof's leaking everywhere It's overflowing buckets And pouring down the stairs Taking spins around the hallway Then rambling out the door Out across the highway And down the empty pier Then deep into the river The wa...

Somewhere out there in the world tonight Just out of my reach I hear your heart beat It's coming in loud and clear tonight Pounding in my brain Calling out your name And in the darkness something binds you to me So that I can find you When you want me...

Molly's sitting on her bed It's Sunday afternoon Radio's playing outside TV bleeds from the next room Antiseptic in the air Nurses laughing down the hall Crooked feet in crooked shoes Her wooden cane against the wall It's Sunday but her Sunday clothes Are pa...

Sadness is a little boy looking Out the window high above the city, Counting statues of people on the buildings, Thinking that the people are forever, He wants his father to be a statue, On the rooftop of his fatherless home, So that he can always see h...

There is no one else around The road is quiet, the only sound Is wind that sounds like cars that sound like breathing The desert air is hot and dry Two lanes weaving earth and sky The stars are all that's keeping time 'til morning And I turn and look beside m...

Never been so lonesome Never been so blue It's midnight on the highway I'm coming back for you Stuck in Ozona Texas Out on highway 10 I'm going to Arizona To win you back again Last time I saw you Your voice was cold as ice And you spoke of some ol...

A house, not a home, was the picture Satan painted For sweet little sister and me, our daddy would frown While mother was prayin', his heart was so hardened That he would not believe In anger he'd swear, his voice cold and loud His Sundays were spent out...

I was only a girl when I went out on my own You wrapped me up warm and just let me go Now I live at the far end of this long distance line And I'm just another one who's gone and left you behind Wish we could look at your pictures, all the places you've b...

We were sitting at a cafe You were listening like you had nothing better to do You were feigning interest badly I guess interest is too hard for you So I stopped talking and just watched you Watched the way your mouth made faces at me Watched the way yo...

There are demons in the water There are devils in the sea There are dangers in the current When the tide goes out of me I could drink you under the table I could drink you out of town I could drink you off the planet Drink myself into the ground And...

When I found you,I knew that you'd be mine It wasn't my first kiss, it wasn't my first time But it was the first time I gave my heart When I wasn't just alone I put it in your hands and I followed you home Now I'm heading east on 80, wishing I could slee...

Enough with the mood lighting, I'm not in the mood Apparently I don't have the right attitude Do you think this is a sense, maybe that's what we need Then we could channel some of the dead air between you and me Dry your new age tears, let's stick to the...

Dirty people take what's mine I can leave them all behind They can never cross that line When I get to the border Sawbones standing at the door Waiting 'til I hit the floor They won't find me anymore When I get to the border Monday morning, Monday mo...

You don't have any secrets when you come into the world You're open like a book and the pages get filled The leaves keep turning and on every single page They write their story with the marks on you face Marks on your face Locked in your head an unbreaka...

I like the way you play your songs I like the way you sing You look so good in colored lights And the brilliant spotlight rings And up there your eyes are fiery And hotter by degree But weary and so confused When no one else can see So you need to fe...

I've spent my life following things I cannot see And just when I catch up to them they slip away from me I've been down a thousand trails I've never walked before I found out that without fail they lead me to your door And the world keeps turning round an...