Matraca Berg

Kensington Garden is sad Beautiful garden too bad I cried for a princess, the roses in bloom On a cold, rainy morning in London in June England is damp and it's drear Strangely for this time of year I'm sleepless without you, I'm tied to your moon On a cold,...

At nine o'clock each morning down On Charlotte Avenue The bus driver stops and lets her off Before the first shampoo Alice started working there when she was just a girl And now she mans the second chair At Thelma's Cut and Curl A trim is just ten dollars A...

If love is like a roller coaster Pretty as a circus poster Would you pay for a day at the fair? I'd like to sit in the very last car Baby, don't hold onto the bar Just throw up your hands in the air Life can be such a scream if you let it And we're just along...

He came into town in the early springtime To work with my daddy down in the mines It was hot in the summer when he said goodbye And he left me a secret I can no longer hide Now the only thing here that is welcoming me Is a cold rainy morning, and a Greyhound b...

Oh no, here we go, and there you go again When we disagree, you leave when you don't win Honey, your sidewalk baby talk don't get it with me no more The next time around the block when you go by my door Baby, walk on till you're gone away Walk on till yo...

Came down from the Cadillac Dude ranch, health spa Nestled on the edge of town For fourteen days I've been Herbal wrapped, mud packed Now I'm bustin' out Well, I thought the wild west wasn't for me You walked up like a bow legged dream When you said y...

I guess, you had to be there, she said, „You had to be” She handed me a yellowed photograph and then said „See, this way my greatest love, my one and only love And this is me back when we were beautiful, see” I don't feel very different, she said, „I know...

Here we are Clinging to what left of a broken heart It's gone too far but I don't think you know it It ain't over yet We were walking out the door when our eyes met How did we forget where we were going Oh bittersweet surrender baby we can't say goodbye Oh bi...

Sweet Abilena looked out at the Midwestern sky Sweet seventeen with a far away look in her eyes She said "I feel like a bird in a cage but come September I'm flying away" I said, "I'll miss you", then I made her promise to write Since we were tall as the...

I looked in your eyes this morning And the blue just turned to gray I keep waiting for the storm that's coming But it's just another dark day I only like clouds when they're raining They do me no good just hanging round I only like clouds when it's raining, b...

If the sun Ain't shining bright And the moon, the moon Won't shine for you tonight And you feel Feelin' real low down today And the stars in the sky gone away If life gets hard to understand And the whole thing gets out of hand Come to momma Come see your mom...

Well, all the girls you see walkin' in here Acting like you're heaven sent You tightrope walkin' song of a gun You think you're the main event But the minute our eyes met Baby, something made you catch your breath And now you're moving real slow, walkin' on a...

Spent my life looking for Happiness like it was buried treasure Somewhere behind the secret door Surely there were riches beyond measure I would take my sanity to task Walk across broken glass to find it And no mountain top was left unclimbed Before I ever to...

I go to work from 10:30 until 6 a.m. Raking up those dimes and quarters Slinging eggs and ham Scrambled, poached, or over easy Coffee black and strong Jukebox of scratchy records I play 'em all night long [Chorus] Eternal blue neon, we're never closed When th...

I drink too much for me I guess Lately here at home Ain't nothing worse than loneliness When you are not alone When I can hear you breathing I wanna fall again, lose my head Wanna build a fire that could burn this bed I wanna feel again, take you down Baby, l...

Don't look so sad, I know it's over. But life goes on, and this old world will keep on turning. Let's just be glad we had some time to spend together. There's no need to watch the bridges that we're burning. Lay your head upon my pillow. Hold your warm and te...

The world is waiting in the drive, another day begins We wake up barely half alive, here we go again We pay our bills and we don't complain We just drive faster in the carpool lane Are we in love or are we insane, baby? Give me tonight, you're still the...

She fixes her hair every morning, long before seven o'clock She'll tell you with her hair that piled up, she feels closer to God And she fires up that old Chevy, gets to the truckers in time Serves up the biscuits and gravy and the wisecracks by nine She'...

The world explodes in violence While the angels cry in vain 'Cause they know the enemy is silent And knows us all by name -- all by name She's living in the suburbs She's watching in the dark There's a finger on the trigger And it's pointed at my heart -- at m...

Blackbird shivers on the old clothes line When I oughta be hanging out my sheets Just when I get to thinking that the sun's gonna shine Well, here you come Here you come raining on me A shadow passes like a slow coal train Dropping off trouble and grief After...

I can't eat, I can't sleep, I got nubs where my fingernails used to be And my cat is lookin' kinda worried 'bout me. The phone rings and I pounce I'm like O.J. Simpson jumping over the couch It ain't you, I'm answering breathlessly I got it bad, I got it bad...

Well, I like to walk my dog in the middle of the night You can hear us howling in the silvery light Of the lamp post in the alley, dancing in the rain And when the sun goes down tomorrow, we'll do it all again Life is so much better, now that we're through I m...

I hear an echo through the aching distance I know your injured voice You stand behind this wall of ice between us I guess you had no choice You had to save yourself, I understand You're afraid to put your heart into my careless hands Oh, they're so much stro...

If I had wings I would fly Over the river and into the night And if I had wheels I would roll Ten years of dreams tethered to my soul Well, it's 59 miles to Memphis Ain't really that far to go With a little money in your pocket It'll get you right down that r...

They say I latched onto you Like you was the last train leaving town But you just kept on moving, boy Left me here to live you down Momma said she'd send a wire And cried on the phone Said, you'll always be my angel girl Won't you come back home? Wel...

Walking on a cloud Lighter than air Don't know where I'm going My heart doesn't care I'm swept by the feeling I'm under your spell Just look in my eyes It's easy to tell It's easy to tell Yet I can't say enough No words can describe falling in love I can't hi...

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene I'm begging of you please don't take my man Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene Please don't take him just because you can Your beauty is beyond compare With flaming locks of auburn hair With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green Your...

It's over, baby, let's face it, baby I'm seldom on your mind It's over, baby, let's face it I won't think you unkind Go softly when you, go easy when you Go sometime in the night It's over, baby, let's face it It happens all the time I know for certain, you g...

Saw Gandhi written on the bathroom wall at Love’s Truck Stop Nashville, exit 87 “Be the change you wish to see in the world” Spites my face thinking ‘bout the girl with a felt tip pen Changed a dirty stall For a good time call, a friend Yeah, call a friend Ev...

I watch the sun going down while I stand on sacred ground Where once the night found us in the twilight of our love You said you'd meet me here but I'm all alone You sounded so sincere, well, did you lead me on? I told the starry sky to wait for you I to...

Fire on the asphalt, L.A. freeway Santa Anna windstorm, come blow me away 'Cause this rearview mirror could use some adjustment Some other reflection, some other place. Oh, Cumberland, I'm a faithful son No matter where I go, I hear you calling me The M...

Last night I dreamed I was standing at Heaven's gate Calling out your name but no one ever came Can't find no mercy, no comfort without you here God it just ain't fair but I'm sending up a prayer There'll come a day,one sweet day When I fly, when I fly I'll b...

All aboard The ship is waiting All aboard, you know I've finally learned That I don't need no farewell party I'm just gonna let my bridges burn Cause I'm going down the river of no return Well, I let it go Yeah, I cried myself an ocean Now I'm gonna pack up m...

Why do I lie here like this Paralyzed by the truth in your kiss You think that I don't know there's someone else I should get up and go, but I'm not feeling well There's a slow poison inside of me A slow poison, killing me by degrees It's a strong potion, lov...

It was a long, hard road, it was all up hill We nearly lost our way, we nearly lost our will So we clung to the rocks where the cold winds blow Till love gave us strength to finally let go We, we climbed that mountain and we got so high Then on the wings...

Praise and worship, bow your head Say a prayer for the too soon dead Call it God's will, call it fate Call for mercy, it's too late This ain't where the angels dwell South of heaven, north of hell Twenty one guns and cathedral bells South of heaven, north of...

He was working through college on my grandpa's farm. I was thirsting for knowledge and he had a car. I was caught somewhere between a woman and a child. When one restless summer we found love growing wild. On the banks of the river on a well beaten path. It's...

Sunday morning, a quarter past ten The congregation says amen The friends and neighbors come rolling in Amazing grace and original sin The preacher said one of us had strayed We sort of shuffled in that nervous way And then we all breathed a sigh of relief Whe...

You can't run from your blues You can't waltz across Texas in a beat up Subaru So I sat a bar down the street from Pete's garage Then you walked in, like a long legged, sweet mirage And I could stay till the wells run dry I could stay till wells run dry But a...

He ran hard, he ran fast A fallen angel on a weekend pass Never looked forward, never looked back A blaze of glory down a one way track I hear the whistle I hear the rumble And at two a.m. outside my door Must be your memory Rattlin' the shutters That train d...

Oh, the sun rolls down, big as a miracle And fades from the Midwest sky And the corn and the trees wave in the breeze As if to say goodbye Oh, my grandfather stood right here as a younger man In nineteen and forty three And with the sweat and his tears, the r...

Where'd you get the number Where'd you get the matches In a motel room Were they lying in a drawer with your old boyscott badges I think I know the truth CHORUS: 'Cause the last fire always lights the next one You burn through lovers like a chain-smokin', swe...

I walked the streets of this little town Late last night when it all shut down Feeling stuck between lost and found and nowhere Using my memory for a map I went looking for trains on the torn up tracks With a weary conductor, he just turned his back but he's...

Saturday, I drove into town In the co-op where your friends hang out I heard one say "What's she doing here?" Well, I held my head up high, swallowed my bitter tears. Yesterday at the hardware store They said "I'm sorry, you don't have no credit anymore" Well...

There's a firefly in love with a distant star Looking longingly up through the atmosphere Tiny beacon flies, finds his wings too soon I watch him make his way, blinded by the moon I want to believe that the wind would know where to take me I want to believe t...

I've been living on the wrong side of Memphis I'm really breaking away this time A full tank of gas and a '69 Tempest Taking me to that Nashville sign No turning back I've come to far I'm heading down 40 with my old guitar This ain't Graceland that's a fact A...

Baby, here I am again Kicking dust in the canyon wind Waiting for that sun to go down Made it up Mullholland Drive Hell bent on getting high High above the lights of town 'Cause you and tequila make me crazy Run like poison in my blood And one more night cou...

I saw you standing there Outside the windows of my heart So cold and shivering There in your world that is so dark I wish that I could set you free From all your insecurities But you threw away the key When you locked the door I tried to love you I tried to...

You turn around Then you ask me behind tears of doubt Just what do I see in you Please don't cry I know sometimes it seems we barely get by But you don't see how much you do To get me through When the world is cold And I need a friend to hold You give me love...

She said, honey, you don't know me But I know you Do you mind if I come in It'll only take a minute or two And by the way I really like What you've done to this place It doesn't really surprise me 'Cause we kind of have the same taste But that's enough small...