Madeleine Peyroux

When we want to love, we love When we want to kiss, we kiss With a little petting, we're getting Some fun out of life When we want to work, we work When we wanna play, we play In a happy setting, we're getting Some fun out of life Maybe we do the right thing...

Well you gassed her up Behind the wheel With your arm around your sweet one In your Oldsmobile Barrelin' down the boulevard You're looking for the heart of Saturday night And you got paid on Friday And your pockets are jingling And you see the lights You get...

You got a lot of tenderness And so much love, you can get no rest If you're willing To waste a little time I don't want all of it All I need is a little bit You got a lot of money saved No use takin' it all to your grave Ain't worth nothin' If you ain't feel...

Lord I must be strong now I don't belong now In this world anymore I'll say a final prayer for Those I care for Who've kept my company My need is clear I'm dying to have you near To me Lord I don't belong now If you are waiting I am not afraid to die I'm...

Here I am awake in a wilderness of lies Trying to assemble a suitable disguise Bleary eyed and seeking a sign I recognize Someone I can count on to be there as my guide All my heroes were failures in their eyes Losers, Drunkards, Fallen saints, and Suicides...

Maybe ain't no use in sayin' what I want it to be Maybe ain't no use in playin' a tune Maybe ain't no use in singin' my blues But there's always a use in you and me Maybe ain't no use in watchin' through the window As the towns and our lives roll on by Maybe...

The birds they sang At the break of day Start again I heard them say Don't dwell on what Has passed away Or what is yet to be. The wars they will Be fought again The holy dove She'll be caught again Bought and sold and bought again The dove is never free. Ri...

That bird with feathers of blue Is waiting for you Back in your own backyard You'll see your castles in Spain Through your window pane Back in your own backyard Oh, you can go to the East, go to the West, Someday you'll come Weary at heart, back where you s...

I remember what my daddy taught me 'Bout how one risky is in a cold ditch And one more thing about good and evil You can't tell which is which Well, if the rest is lost and history Or maybe wasted on a fool like me And that these bare bones Would leave me som...

Drink up, baby Stay up all night Things you could do You won't but you might The potential you'll be You'll never see Promises you'll only make Drink up with me now And forget all about Pressure of days Do what I say And I'll make you okay And drive them away...

Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free. Like a worm on a hook, like a knight from some old fashioned book I have saved all my ribbons for thee. If I, if I have been unkind, I hope that you can just let it go...

There's perfume burning in the air Bits of beauty everywhere Shrapnel flying, soldier hit the dirt She comes so close You feel her then She tells you No and No again Your lip is cut on the edge of her pleated skirt Blue Alert Visions of her drawing near Aris...

Born to lose, I've lived my life in vain Every dream has only brought me pain All my life I've always been so blue Born to lose and now I'm losing you. Born to lose, it seems so hard to bear How I long to always have you near You've grown tired and now you sa...

Bye bye love Bye bye happiness Hello loneliness I think I'm-a gonna cry Bye bye love Bye bye sweet caress Hello emptiness I feel like I could die Bye bye my love goodbye There goes my baby with someone new She sure looks happy, I sure am blue She was my baby...

California rain is fallin' I can hear the summer callin' Far away, far away A song that's fadin' Put me on a plane tomorrow I'll try to run from all my sorrow Far away, far away From endless waitin' It's so cold here without the sun I'm so sad here far away...

Love, oh love, oh careless love, You've fly though my head like wine You've wrecked the life Of many a poor girl And you nearly spoiled this life of mine Love, oh love, oh careless love, In your clutches of desire You've made me break a many true vow Then you...

Sweetheart I'm changing all those changes That I made when I left you Because I made those changes when I thought you were untrue But now you're gone I've found I'm wrong And there's a nothing I can do Except to change up all those changes That I made when I l...

My heart is like a hand-me-down made soft by older brothers My body's like my father's house, the sin of generations Damn the circumstances Life is hard enough Damn the bones that rattle Faith is good enough You shook the ground beneath my feet, my hopes tur...

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love Dance me to the end of love Let me see your beauty when the witnesses are go...

I was sitting in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel I was staring in my empty coffee cup I was thinking that the gypsy wasn't lyin' And all the salty margaritas in L.A. I'm gonna drink 'em up And if California slides into the ocean Like the mystics and statistics s...

Honey please don't cry Listen to me There's no reason why We shouldn't agree If i hurt your feeling I apologize You're the only one That I idealize Don't cry baby Don't cry baby Dry your eyes Let be sweetheart again You know I didn't mean to Make you feel bl...

When you're walking on the street, and the people that you meet, make you want to start a big fight, 'cause they talk as if they're so right. There is one thing to remember, in case you haven't heard: You can kill a mighty emperor, but you cannot smite a word....

You can cry a million tears You can wait a million years If you think that time will change your ways Don't wait to long When your morning turns to night Who'll be loving you by candlelight If you think that time will change your ways Don't wait to long Mayb...

My job's gone missing, insurance is a fail Credit cards stopped coming, my attorney's in jail Just broke a law I never heard of before Landlord thinks I'm made so he bust down my door Used to think I was pretty damn smart Smart enough to see I'm falling apart...

Dreamin' Makin' my way Dreamin' Won't let me stay in your arms In your warm In your love Sleepin' Away the day Hopin' That we two could stay All alone On our own revelries Let's make a pact for our lives And our homelands Built on the bricks that we bath...

Everybody's talkin' at me I don't hear a word they're sayin' Only the echoes of my mind People stopping, staring I can't see their faces Only the shadows of their eyes I'm going where the sun keeps shining Through the pouring rain Going where the weather sui...

Everything I do gonna be funky From now on, yeah I got to be myself and do my thing A little soul can't do no harm, yeah Everything I do gonna be funky From now on, yeah Everything I do gonna be funky From now on, yeah Everything I do gonna be funky From now...

Fickle dove Always dreaming of the sky above Wonder when they'll bring the one you love To you When you coo For the one who only coos for you Your feathers heed no calling to When they woo to love You wait For all you want is fate To make The one who'd call yo...

It's knowing that your door is always open And your path is free to walk That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag Rolled up and stashed behind your couch And it's knowing I'm not shackled By forgotten words and bonds And the ink stains that are dried upon s...

I've got you on my mind I'm feeling kind of sad and low Got you on my mind Feeling kind of sad and low I'm wondering where you are Wondering why you had to go Tears begin to fall Every time I hear your name Tears begin to fall Every time I hear your name B...

Yes, baby, I've been drinking, And I shouldn't come by I know But I found myself in trouble, darling, And I had nowhere else to go Got some whiskey from a barman, Got some cocaine from a friend I just had to keep on moving, Till I was back in your arms again...

Every night he'd come to me I'd cook for him, I'd pour his tea I was in my thirties then Had made some money, lived with men We'd lay us down to give and get Beneath the white mosquito net And since no counting had begun We lived a thousand years in one The...

Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears While we all sup sorrow with the poor There's a song that will linger forever in our ears Oh, Hard times come again no more It's the song, the sigh of the weary Hard times, hard times, come again no mo...

Heaven help the child who never had a home Heaven help the girl who walks the street alone Heaven help the roses when the bombs begin to fall Heaven help us all Heaven help the poor man if he struggles one more day Heaven help the rich man if he turns his ba...

When I hear them say There's better living Let them go their way To that new living I won't ever stray 'Cause this is heaven to me Long as freedom grows I want to seek it If it's yes or no It's me who'll speak it 'Cause the lord, He knows That this is heaven...

Hello, babe, I had to call you up Hello, baby, I'm feeling up You know, I have something to tell you Honey, I still want you to know I'm sorry Ain't going to let you worry my life no more Well, hello, babe, I got to say goodbye You know, I'm so sorry that I'm...

Hey sweet man Who you give your lovin' to? Hey sweet man Who you give your lovin' to? I gotta mind to love you I'll love you through and through Hey momma's child Ain't you been waitin' for me? Hey momma's child Ain't you been waitin' for me? I've gotta min...

I sit here content my thoughts and my feelings Remembering who I used to be The life I have now is much more appealing No hurries no worries for me A bench by the shore a coat for my pillow A future with no guarantee The world was a rat race and I had my fill...

I saw a handsome dancing bee under the flow'ring Apple tree Raising his butt up to the sky shaking his wings like a firefly He wants to dance He wants to share romance Cause he's going to a honey party (To a honey party), a honey party (To a honey party), I...

I can't stop loving you, I've made up my mind To live in memories of the lonesome times I can't stop wanting you, it's useless to say So I'll just live my life in dreams of yesterdays Those happy hours that we once knew Tho' long ago, they still make me blue...

Lose your keys under the house, lose the button from your blouse, Lose the plastic diamond ring from the parade Lose the color in your lips, lose the swingin' in your hips, But if you lose me in your grips I must be saved. Lose the harmonies we learned, lose...

I once held him in my arms And he said he'd always stay But I was cruel, I treated him like a fool And I threw it all away I once had mountains in the palm of my hand Rivers that ran through every day But I must have been mad, never knew what I had 'Til I thr...

I'll look around Until I've found someone Who laughs like you I know somewhere Spring must fill the air With sweetness just as rare As the flower That you gave me to wear I look around And when I've found someone Who laughs like you I'll know this love I'm d...

He made me laugh He made me cry He smoked his stogies in bed But I'm all right I'm all right I've been lonely before I asked the boy for a few kind words He gave me a novel instead But I'm all right I'm all right I've been lonely before It's fine, it's OK It w...

I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter And make believe it came from you I'm gonna write words, oh, so sweet They're gonna knock me off my feet Kisses on the bottom I'll be glad I've got 'em I'm gonna smile and say "I hope you're feelin' better" A...

If the sea was whiskey and I was a diving duck If the sea was whiskey and I was a diving duck I'd dive to the bottom and I don't know when I'd come up Well I'm just here wondering will a matchbox hold my clothes Yeah I'm just here wondering will a matchbox ho...

Instead of feelin' bad, be glad you've got somewhere to go Instead of feelin' sad, be happy you're not all alone Instead of feelin' low, get high on everything that you love Instead of wastin' time, feel good 'bout what you're dreamin' of. Instead of tryin' t...

On dit qu'au dela des mers La-bas sous le ciel clair Il existe une cite Au sejour enchante Et sous les grands arbres noirs Chaque soir Vers elle s'en va tout mon espoir J'ai deux amours Mon pays et Paris Par eux toujours Mon c?ur est ravi Manhattan est belle...

J'avoue j'en ai bave pas vous mon amour Avant d'avoir eu vent de vous mon amour Ne vous deplaise En dansant la Javanaise Nous nous aimions Le temps d'une chanson A votre avis qu'avons-nous vu de l'amour De vous a moi vous m'avez eu mon amour Ne vous deplaise...

Des yeux qui font baisser les miens Un rire qui se perd sur sa bouche Voilŕ le portrait sans retouche De l'homme auquel j'appartiens Quand il me prend dans ses bras Il me parle tout bas Je vois la vie en rose Il me dit des mots d'amour Des mots de tous les jo...

Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral: But in my arms till break of day Let the living creature lie, Mortal, guilty, but to me...

Love my bread, I love my butter. Love the road, I love my lover. Love my freedom and the cover, I love you. Love to run, I love to holler. Love the ease, and the bother. And I live today until tomorrow cause of you, But I'm leavin' home again. 'till I c...

Sur mes cahiers d'écolier Sur mon pupitre et les arbres Sur le sable sur la neige J'écris ton nom Sur toutes les pages lues Sur toutes les pages blanches Pierre, sang, papier ou cendre J'écris ton nom Sur les images dorées Sur les armes des guerriers Sur...

Look down, look down that lonesome road Before you travel on. Look up, look up and greet your maker, For Gabriel blows his horn. Weary, totin' such a heavy load, Trudging down that lonesome road Look down, look down that lonesome road Before you travel on. ~...

I put on my gloves tonight, pull onto the road to San Berdu They remind me of hustlers, confidence men, and you My hands are warm beneath them, and easy on the wheel Without your love and treachery the calm is all I feel I shiver in the mirror, pull my belt a...

And I followed him to the station With a suitcase in my hand I followed him to the station With a suitcase in my hand It's so hard to tell It's so hard to tell When all your love's in vain When the train pulled into the station And I looked him in the eye Th...

I've got a lovesick tale to tell you Though it ain't no fail of mine, It's about a gal named Sue and a boy named Lou They were fightin' all the time Sue came home one afternoon And found an empty dining room Without a word a turtledove had flown Sue began to...

I'm afraid The oceans wide I'm small Memories Haunt me Of a time before the war Blue wind rolling Red sky dawning Warm skin glowing Strange thoughts haunting Sing with me your lullaby Baby please don't cry I'll sing it with you until I die Baby please don't c...

Martha, my dear Though I spend my days in conversation Please remember me Martha, my love, don't forget me Martha, my dear Hold your head up, you silly girl Look what you've done When you find yourself in the thick of it Help yourself to a bit of what is all...

I’ve wasted some years Looking for the things that matter Looking for the things that never appear ‘til they’re done And they may never have been But that was just the beginning And I’ve longed for sometime Time I know that was mine Looking for you Looking fo...

Well we marching out the world towards the new century Armed with the new technology We getting more and more productivity Some say things looking up for prosperity But if everyone is going to get a share this time Old mentality must be left behind I want the...

Dixie moonlight, Swanee shore Headed homebound just once more To my Mississippi delta home Southland got that grand garden spot Although you believe or not I hear those breeze a-whispering "Come on back to me" Muddy water 'round my feet Muddy water in the st...

You ain't gonna bother me no more Nohow Love goes just so far No more Woke up this morining and found I didn't care for you no more Not now Never felt so good before You're down to my size It's over and done So Highness, step down from your throne That look i...

Nobody's causing any trouble Nobody's trying to pick a fight We're all just soaking up this Sunday summer sun Feeling glad to be alive Ain't gonna worry bout tomorrow And even less about today We're gonna watch the light go down on the horizon Let ev'ry momen...

Come to, the day is new, hit the floor, crack the door and what do I see? Strange kid standing there, Who is that in the mirror — Could it be me? Somebody opens the bedroom door, somebody wanders the hall someone’s crossin’ my kitchen floor. Wasn’t there s...

From bad luck, I'm walkin' away I'm not gettin' stuck, I'm not gonna stay To good things, I'm movin' ahead I'm tired of dyin' an' I'm livin' instead Once in a while I'll wake up Wonderin' why we gave up? But once in a while Comes and it fades away The sun's...

There's a road In my mind I've been watching For a long time It's the muddy Mississippi And a yellow dandelion From the Hudson River To Missouri In the mosses and red clay I can feel the rhythm call me From a thousand miles away Let me go Down to the river Le...

Can I buy you something, can I stroke your hair, Can I hold your hand and take you somewhere? You're a young nobody, you're a perfect soul, You're an empty altar that can make me whole. Can I take you somewhere, can I wipe your tears, Can I fill your pockets o...

Sally had a cigaret she wanted a doob Bob said "You're an addict," Sally said "Well, that's true" Bob said "Sally, tell me, what's so frightening to you?" "Well, just being in this city and sitting here with you" A rag tag rehab clinic ain't nowhere to have f...

When I wasn't nothing but a child When I wasn't nothing but a child All you men tried to drive me wild Now I'm, now I'm growing old Now, now I'm growing old And I've got what it takes to get all of you men told My mama says I'm reckless, my daddy says I'm...

(feat. K.D. Lang) It's coming on Christmas They're cutting down trees They're putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace I wish I had a river I could skate away on But it don't snow here It stays pretty green I'm going to make a lot of money Then...

Stop all this talk, turn off the telephone Open up another bottle, send those people home Let it get real quiet, turn that lamp way down low I'm gonna float down this river of tears I remember how we spoke on the days he was dry Even now that he's gone he can...

(Shout sister shout) Hallelujah (Shout sister shout) Oh, yeah (Shout sister shout) Oh, yeah (Tell the whole world what it's all about) Now there's a reason for living A reason for dying A darn good reason Why a woman starts crying A reason for a mole A reason...

Smile though your heart is aching Smile even though its breaking When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by If you smile through your fear and sorrow Smile and maybe tomorrow You'll see the sun come shining through for you Light up your face with gladnes...

Wide awake Breath taken I'm shaken by my sight Couldn't sleep Couldn't keep Quiet secrets on the wind I hear There's somethin' grand coming Cool lumming Through my empty city On a night breeze so free lovers must collide And the morning sun must rise All is...

If I were a superhero I'd know what to do Wrap you up in moonlight Stop the world for you If I were a superhero I would save the day If you had a sorry Tell our troubles melt away But here we are Here we are A million miles from where they care Who we are Wis...

~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ Take these chains from my heart and set me free You've grown cold and no longer care for me All my faith in you is gone but the heartaches linger on Take these chains from my heart and set me free Take these tears from my eyes and let me see Just a...

Well you play that Tarantella All the hounds they start to roar And the boys all go to hell Then the Cubans hit the floor They climb along the pipeline They tango till they're sore They take apart their nightmares And they leave them by the door Let me fall o...

Yes, it's fun when you're young beneath an innocent sun And the unicorns play in the fields And your Daddy drives slow with his Cadillac soul His big strong hands on the wheel And life is a dream of serene machines that all seem to care how you feel But then y...

~~~♫♫♫~~~ Here we are Gathered here Dressed in our finest drinking whiskey and beer Gathered to pay tribute To the Ghosts of a Tomorrow That never comes Hey bartender Put that bottle down My head's already spinning way too fast around But I'll make one final...

My days, they are the highway kind They only come to leave But the leavin' I don't mind It's the comin' that I crave Pour the sun upon the ground And stand to throw a shadow Watch it grow into a night And fill the spinnin' sky Time among the pine trees It fe...

You got palatial mansions I got a rented flat You got Persian kittens I got tabby cat You got art collections I got comic books You use plastic surgery I stay the way I look You travel private jet I stand by overnight You romance with chandeliers And I use c...

The summer wind Came blowing in From across the sea It lingered there So warm and fair To walk with me All summer long We sang a song And strolled on golden sand Two sweethearts And the summer wind Like painted kites Those days and nights Went flyin by The wo...

The things I've seen today don't have a name some memories a word cannot explain they last too long or they fade too fast beginnings change and endings wane they lack effect and cause at times they seem so poor all they give is pause the things I've seen...

I never thought I would Never wanted to Never learned how As others do It was me who'd sigh Was me who's ask And I'm guessing me Who writes this (?) Maybe that is the way of all things The way that a glance carries romance On the quiet of strings The way that...

Some day, when I'm awfully low When the world is cold I will feel a glow just thinking of you And the way you look tonight Lovely, with your smile so warm And your cheeks so soft There is nothing for me but to love you Just the way you look tonight With each...

When I hear them say There's better living Let them go their way To that new living I won't ever stray 'Cause this is heaven to me Long as freedom grows I want to seek it If it's yes or no It's me who'll speak it 'Cause the lord, He knows That this is heaven...

A quiet room is what you get, an empty glass, an unmade bed, A picture window with a view, and all I think about is you To feel so bad, to feel so good, to let it be misunderstood, Now I long to lose my senses to love you all over again. The shouted words, th...

Trampin', trampin' Trying to make heaven my home Trampin', trampin' Trying to make heaven my home Never been to heaven But I've been told Trying to make heaven my home The streets up there Are paved with gold Trying to make heaven my home Trampin', trampin'...

I go out walkin' after midnight Out in the moonlight, just like we used to do I'm always walkin' after midnight Searchin' for you I walk for miles along the highway Well, that's just my way of sayin' I love you I'm always walkin' after midnight Searchin' for...

Sweet young thing of sixteen Thought I'd step out one night I longed to get the thrilling life i've missed I met a youth A bit uncouth Although he seemed alright I knew him by the moment when we kissed Then I got home, next day with a swollen head My girlfri...

It's easy to see the things going wrong now It's easy to wallow in a sad song It's easy to cry over all that is gone now But I believe that we must carry on I hear you saying that our best days are past us I've seen you walking through the rubble and stone Ye...

Weary blues from waitin' Lord, I've been waitin' so long These blues have got me cryin' Oh, sweet daddy please come home The snow falls 'round my window But it can't chill my heart Lord knows it died the day you left My dream world fell apart. Weary...

You can't do me, you can't do me, you can't do me the way you did before ? You can't do me, you can't do me, you can't do me the way you did before ? 'Cause when you do, and when you do, 'cause when you do, you know I get so blue! When you do, and when you do,...

You give your hand to me And then you say, "Hello." And I can hardly speak, My heart is beating so. And anyone can tell You think you know me well. Well, you don't know me. No you don't know the one Who dreams of you at night; And longs to kiss your lips And l...

I've seen love go by my door It's never been this close before Never been so easy or so slow Been shooting in the dark too long When something's not right it's wrong You're gonna make me lonesome when you go Dragon clouds so high above I've only known careles...