Nields

Funny how this begins Holding court over a bottle of gin He says, "You don't know what it's like to be me" She says, "No, don't talk to me like I'm dumb" He says, "Shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up You don't understand the art of the gun" He broke...

Daddy's on the back porch playing with a blow torch standing by the front door Avon Ladies For the Poor Meanwhile Mama smiles, "Get your lover down the aisle before he's gone" Lisa says, "Don't cry; I'll bring you flowers when you die I'll go to scho...

I want to be beautiful, so I got a magazine But it made me so sleepy, and now I'm in a dream A voice says, "Go down to the river between the bridge and the ravine And don't come out of the water till your light shines clean" Check it out, check it out, ch...

You know, and I know, but we don't say a word. Cause we're cowards. And your friends all really like me and tell me that I'm good for you, and I think it's true. And my friends think I'm crazy, and tell me not to hold by breath. I think I'm depresse...

We sat around the table and drank a bottle of wine And it poured around us like a moat till no one could get us, and I was fine And I said, "Haven't I paid my dues by now, haven't I paid my dues by now Haven't I paid my dues by now, don't I get the right to...

You smile at me and I smile right back. There's nothing to say; Just a laugh track TV trays and plastic spoons, metal skies and cardboard moons You kiss my lips and I kiss yours too. We sing off key our toothpaste tune Cartoon kids and cartoons cars make...

This doesn't feel like sky But I surely must be flying I've never been this high I can hear the angels crying And I don't know why I'm here I only know that this is true That though the days are passing I will always miss you Forever Forever...

Hold on, hold on Hold on, hold on Oh yeah, he's coming down the road With his dad's guitar hanging over his shoulder He takes that Woody Guthrie pose And says, "I'll buy you cigarettes when you get older." But that's not what we want anyway We came out...

Why am I crying for you? You're the one who feeds me with empty hands When I try to find my way back you won't let me go But what I feel is not what you intend Why am I waiting for you? You're the one who's locked in empty rooms When I try to find the k...

Driving into Santa Fe Dreaming of the day I'll make it mine That day is coming Ani DiFranco on the tape player Thinking of the things I'd say to her if I could But I just keep humming Girl you've got some nerve Taking everything that you deserve Touc...

We meet at three I have coffee, you have tea 'Cause you're such an anglophile But I'd take Paris anytime And look at me, I'm smiling And I'm not even trying And I don't have to stay I couldn't really anyway But while I'm here can we pretend I won't b...

It's been so long since you called my room pretending to be someone else. I have not seen your face from across my plate; nor have I read your poems in the dark by the light of a camera. But what are we for if not for this? what are we going to do? You'd...

All I seem to see of you now is the back of your head All I seem to ask of you now is "When will you be ready?" And I want to tell you I've gone away and won't come back Leave a word and wait for me to call you back And I won't But I will you know I will....

In the hush before the heartbreak Everything is beautiful In the hush before the heartbreak Everything's cool In the hush before the heartbreak I'll be your fool In the hush before the heartbreak I'll do anything for you I don't care about tomorrow I...

I remember much Walking down to the lake at dusk You dare me, I dare you Hanging down from a rope Innertube Innertube Innertube Innertube You climb the tree Swing the rope back to the shore to me You push me, I push you Swinging out over the dark...

Message to all my friends I've fallen down again Please send help Please send your horses and your men Please send your very best doctors and lawyers to put me together again I've spent my whole life falling down From the stairs I climbed to the boys I...

Jeremy Newborn Street That is the place you said we'd meet I wrote it inside my little blank book Jeremy Newborn Street I look down at my feet and see the sign I'm where I should be so I'll just wait around for you And what can I say? It's a beaut...

Julia makes up lies for children; she only wants to be their friend. Julia turns her mirrors to the wall; she only wants to begin again. And Julia, do you have a friend who can wash away your sins? And if there's no one in your life, does that mean you...

I watch you come out of nowhere, your three ships and your hunch You take my hand and kiss it then you ask me out for lunch You say I'd be all right with just a little pain But sweetheart, everyone around me ends up going insane. And you start by saying do...

You drive your car, check the road, watch the miles ticking by I change the station, you say "Stop," so I stop Hours pass with the miles, not a word has been spoken And the trees are all a blur, nothing's wrong, nothing's broken But these are my last kiss...

Lovely Rita meter maid, Nothing can come between us, When it gets dark I tow your heart away. Standing by a parking meter, When I caught a glimpse of Rita, Filling in a ticket in her little white book. In a cap she looked much older, And the bag...

To Mercy House we came Over and over again We tell her where we've been "Do you think you could take us in?" The answer is always the same In Mercy House we hide But just for the sake of our pride She sews up all the holes In our older brother'...

His hair is longer than my dad would like He's beautiful He's just returning from a cross country bike trip He's beautiful Just call him Right Now, Mr. Right Now "All these names that you want to call me Don't mean nothing if you don't wanna call m...

When I was twelve, my mom and I Left New York for California sky Dad had gone, it was Mom and me In our Chevrolet, two-part harmony The car broke down west of Omaha We settled down, Mom got a job Oh, Nebraska Oh, Nebraska Oh, Nebraska Oh, Nebraska...

I have known you all my life, In fact, I knew you long before A hundred years or so of you And all I want from you is more Sometimes I don't know who you are Sometimes I don't know why you stay All I know is when I called, you came I have known y...

Your words are kind and your eyes are sweet All of my beginnings end in defeat Meanwhile I know it's time to go home. Your whispering kings I cannot believe I don't know what you want to achieve All I know is l must be alone. I watch your hands as they...

I don't feel much like dancing You scrape the ice off my glances We walk through a cold and moonless winter night You recognize the coal in a snowman's eyes It's all right, it's okay, if I freeze I can't decay You touch and I freeze, there is ice where m...

William's my friend; he'll never change he's my friend the outlaw at home on the range He wears his hair long in a neat ponytail To prove he's still searching for sweet holy grail He has wise blood; I hear it travel his veins His heart beats in Texas all...

You would not be strong If you were not furious You would not be wrong If you were only curious And I know where you go at night And I know what keeps you tight And I see the king is falling And I am ready to take my part I know your ways I see your...

In a picture I sit by the lake November blue sky on the water. How hard is it for you to see me as somebody's daughter? I've never been able to fake it; to pretend I don't care anymore. So I'll leave it up to you to do the talking. You told me I couldn'...

She is waiting in line for a meal that is free There's a boy with a beard and a patch on his knee She already knows what the conversation will be This happens again and again She asks where he's sitting and is he alone He smiles with his teeth, he's a lo...

We could at least agree that someday we'd have coffee. There's a little place I know; OK--neutral territory. How was I to know that you'd go into video? Or that you'd run off with your professor's wife? And now I can't believe this is my life. So who c...

You and me and she and he and he And we agree to be happy happy happy And we will be completely in control We want to go to Paradise, everyone there says it's so nice Everyone's got their own TV with their own episode of Biography Everyone's got twenty-f...

There hasn't been a train here for about two thousand years Maybe there never was one but the tracks are everywhere And my pale imagination makes me think there'll be one soon Maybe it's desperation or the shadows on the moon No no, I will still believe...

Watch my heart break By Waco Lake I try to make my mind up For Heaven's sake So take me to the fire Where I'll burn my poor heart down And do me a favor, won't you call John the Baptist Tell him I'll be there soon if I make it back to town My upbring...