Patty Griffin

I must have walked ten million miles Must have walked ten million miles Wore some shoes that weren't my style Ten million miles I've been kind of told some lies Like anyone who's lived or died Like anyone who's ever tried To walk ten million miles I memorize...

All creatures of our God and King. Lift up your voice and with us sing. Alleluia! Alleluia!. Thou rising moon, in praise rejoice, Ye lights of evening, find a voice! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!. Alleluia! Alleluia!. Thou rushing wind that art so strong....

All the girls in the Paris night All the girls in the pale moonlight All the girls with the shopping bags All the girls with the washing rags All the girls on the telephone All the girls standing all alone All the girls sitting on the wire One by one fly into...

Away beyond the blue Away beyond the blue One star belongs to you One star belongs to you And every breath I take And every breath I take I'm closer to that place I'm closer to that place Yeah baby, I'm gonna meet you there On the outskirts of the sk...

The farther I come the farther I fall Whatever I knew it was nothing at all Nothing at all, just making me small Smaller and smaller I fall back Sooner or later with a view from the ground Chasing the race and the races run you down Sooner or later with a vie...

I went back to Boston Back to the City of Lost Love I went back to the place And recognized your face in the stone long gone I walked around Harvard Square All the runaway kids are still hanging out there I took the red line a wrong way Across the River Charl...

We wait for the bus that's going to Bangor In my plaid dress and burgundy shoes In your red lipstick and lilac kercheif You're the most pretty lady in the world Sun The bus driver smiles, a dime and a nickel We climb on our seats, the vinyl is cold "Michelle...

One of the dead boys, he looked like Opie he looked like Opie, one of the dead boys Grandpa gave him a cup of cocoa and Rubbed his head for luck like he always did All you need is a coca-cola That's what it takes to get the job done A bunch of boys sitting in...

Maybe they come by land Maybe they come by sea Maybe they've already come Maybe they come by me Slipping into the twilight I ride the broken wave tonight An old song on the radio You knew a long time ago An old song on the radio Going out over the ocean Maybe...

Dog comes howling up behind you, sinks his teeth in your leg Tells you how now things are going to be a little different And he takes you down a peg You make him ashamed for you, he buys you a new dress Because you make him ashamed for you, he'd like you to to...

Chief had been out of the army For 15 years or more He was still marching up and down that street Just like he was a-walking a war They called him the chief because he was Indian It was a name they said behind his back In the summer he'd march without any shoe...

If you had the real thing how would you tell Liars can say it all just as well Every single word you've heard in vain Baubles of gold, stars in your hair Reflections that told that they were not there And the diamonds on your cheeks have turned to flames And u...

To the end of the Earth, I'll search for your face For the one who laid all of our beauty to waste Threw our hope into Hell and our children into the fire I am the one who crawled through the wire I am the one who crawled through the wire There's a million sa...

Anytime you say it with heart Anytime you're falling apart When you're washing the sheets Any stranger you meet When there's somebody waving goodbye You're coming home to me, just remember You're coming home to me It's a world full of bar rooms and alleys O...

Light it up, baby, light up that fire I don't know what's gonna save me from the cold now And these sorrows I'm crying over And these sorrows I'm crying over Embrace me, embrace me with your kind love It's all I've ever wanted, all I've ever dreamed of And al...

We're rocking big daddy How bout that How bout that Here he comes again Me and my friends We all laugh at him Cuz he's so funny Warm and fuzzy We're rocking big daddy How bout that A celebration! A celebration! He caught a little fish He had one wish Daddy We'...

You can’t hide You can’t hide You can’t hide Because you don’t know how God's got your number And He knows where you live Death's got a warrant out for you You can’t hide You can’t hide You can’t hide Because you don’t know how God's got your num...

I'm drinkin' rain and taking pictures in the dark With some flowers in my hair and a hole inside my heart And the hole you left in me is so deep and it's so wide If you look I think you'll see through right to the other side Take the stars down that I wished...

It's funny how a morning turns a love to shame Disguised and disfigured and you thought I tasted like rain There`s nothing here but a shadow nothin here Now you know Now you know Now you know Now you know There's nothin here but the shadow, and now you know I...

Took a walk around the block Bought a candle it was Flaming red flaming red Thought a thought then I forgot so I sang a happy song In my head in my head Wore my red shoes Wore my red shoes again Getting worn out from All of the wandering Worn out and holy Hol...

A couple of young girls went Sailing down A1A Into the arms of Florida Sailing down a highway Singing their heads off Protected by the holy ghosts Flying in the ocean Driving with their eyes close The night wants to kiss you deep And be on his way Pretend he...

We are swimming with the snakes at the bottom of the well So silent and peaceful in the darkness where we fell But we are not snakes, and what's more, we never will be And if we stay swimming here forever we will never be free I heard them ringing the bel...

I am no longer young, I'm an old man's daughter We got caught with the sun going down We spent most of our days adrift on the water That's how I know my way around And it's hard to be free When freedom is just me And the waves on the terrible sea I could land...

Oh, baby, I'm getting ready I'm getting ready to let you go My hands shake, my heart's unsteady Oh, how I once loved you so I know all the magic's gone Wish I had a magic wand I would put a spell on you You would see it as I do Oh, I'm getting ready to let you...

Here's your moon Here's your stars Go now Go now Here's the sun Here's the birds Here's you are Go now Go now Got a stellar reputation As the star that never fell As the train that left the station As the secret that no one could ever tell Here's the lamp Her...

You can go wherever you wanna go Go wherever you wanna go Fly up to the moon and say hello now You can go wherever you wanna go You don’t ever have to go to war no more Never have to go to war no more Wear them boots and swim that icy shore now You don...

I’m gonna miss you when you’re gone I know you don’t believe that, but you’re wrong There’s gonna be some rainy Sundays Wishing one day, I’ll see you again Maybe I’m getting ahead of myself But I know you’re headed somewhere else And all the secrets tha...

Occured to me the other day You've been gone now a couple years well, I guess it takes while For someone to really disappear And I remember where I was When the word came about you It was a day much like today the sky was bright, and wide, and blue And I wond...

Oh heavenly day, all the clouds blew away Got no trouble today with anyone The smile on your face I live only to see It's enough for me, baby, it's enough for me Oh, heavenly day, heavenly day, heavenly day Tomorrow may rain with sorrow Here's a little time w...

People steal, they cheat and lie For wealth and what it will buy Don't they know on the judgment day That their gold and silver will melt away I'd rather be in a deep, dark grave And know that my poor soul was saved Than to live in this world in a house of go...

I'm no kid in a kid's game I did what I did, I've got no one to blame But I don't give up, no, I don't ever give up It's all I've got, it's my claim to fame I'm no fighter but I'm fighting This whole world seems uninviting But I don't give up, no, I don't eve...

I smell a rat baby I smell a rat baby You’d better watch out... I smell a rat, babe You won’t tell me where you been Whiskey running all down your chin I smell a rat baby I smell a rat baby You’d better watch out I smell a rat baby You come stumbli...

I'm over here and it's cold I'm writing recipes for growing old Growing old, mean and alone Oh, baby, pick up the phone This pain in my heart Has been with me through the ages And I walk around it like a very old friend It goes everywhere I go It's been every...

Tonight I sing soft and low Just like the moon Over the snow I hear icicles falling in the dark We're just like anyone else We just want a little bit Of sun for ourselves And a little bit of rain To make it all grow Maybe a minute or two To get lost in the gl...

If I had my way If I had my way If I had my way I would tear this building down Tear this building down You read about Sampson and from his birth The strongest man that ever lived on Earth One day old Sampson was walking alone He looked down on the ground and...

J'irai la voir un jour, Au ciel, dans la patrie, ui j'irai voir Marie, Ma joie et mon amour. Au ciel, au ciel, au ciel, j'irai la voir un jour. Au ciel, au ciel, au ciel, j'irai la voir un jour. J'irai la voir un jour! J'irai m'unir aux anges, Pour...

The Sunday after there was laughter in the air Everybody had a kite They were flying everywhere And all the trouble went away And it wasn't just a dream All the trouble went away And it wasn't just a dream In the middle of the night We try and try with all ou...

Ain't no talkin to this man Ain't no pretty other side Ain't no way to understand the stupid words of pride It would take an acrobat, and I already tried all that so I'm gonna let him fly Things can move at such a pace The second hand just waved goodbye You kn...

My friend, come stand beside me Lately, I'm feeling so lost A flood came and washed the stones of the path away And a hot sun turned the mud to dust Calling the sheep in for the evening There's a voice, calls above the howling wind It says comes rest beside m...

Good morning little god I see you've come for me again With a noose between your teeth You are not my friend Pouring little cups of tea Humming a little tune You sit across from me And fill my little room Little god Smoke is in the air From your little cigare...

Long black limousine Shiniest car I've ever seen The back seat is nice and clean She rides as quiet as a dream Someone dug a hole six long feet in the ground I said goodbye to you and I threw my roses down Ain't nothing left at all in the end of being proud Wi...

Long black limousine Shiniest car I've ever seen The back seat is nice and clean She rides as quiet as a dream Someone dug a hole six long feet in the ground I said goodbye to you and I threw my roses down Ain't nothing left at all in the end of being proud Wi...

Let's write a story of a title wave We run out of luck We run out of days We run out of gas A hundred miles away From a station There's a war and a plague Smoke and disaster Lions in the coliseum Screams of laughter Motherless children A witness and a bible N...

We were drinking like the Irish But we were drinking scotch Bartender turned on a movie Everybody turned to watch And every single eye was gleaming As he reached the final scene Well, at least mine did Here's lookin' at you, kid It's a mad mission Under diffi...

It's not far I can walk Down the block To TableTalk Close my eyes Make the pies all day Plastic cap on my hair I used to mind Now I don't care I used to mind Now I don't care Cause I'm Gray Did I show you this picture of my nephew Taken at his big birthday s...

Mary you're covered in roses, you're covered in ashes You're covered in rain You're covered in babies, you're covered in slashes You're covered in wilderness, you're covered in stains You cast aside the sheet, you cast aside the shroud Of another man, who serv...

He encontrado en tu amor, la fe perdida, Ahora tiene mi vida una razón. No sé si fue el embrujo de tus ojos, que le dijo a tus labios, Róbale el corazón. Yo sé que en los mil besos que te he dado en la boca se me fue el corazón; y dicen que es pecado querer c...

Moon river, wider than a mile I'm crossing you in style some day Oh, dream maker You heart breaker Wherever you're going, I'm going your way Two drifters off to see the world There's such a lot of world to see We're after the same rainbow's end Waiting 'round...

followed your road till the sky ran out followed your love till love was in doubt followed your love till it never really was at all feeling stupid and hollow now the moon's gonna follow me home waited for you till the snow fell down over my skin like a thi...

Diamonds, roses,I need Moses To cross this sea of loneliness, Part this red river of pain I don't necessarily buy any key to the future or happiness But I need a little place in the sun sometimes Or I think I will die Everywhere is somewhere And nowhere is ne...

All you kids get out the back door I've never seen her this bad before She took all her favorite things down from the window And broke 'em all over her clean floor It's Saturday at the mansion The oldest boy walks with a slouch The young ones are wild in back...

Well, I believe in my soul And I'm going on home Hallelujah, oh Lord, I'm moving, move up When this life is over I'm going to stick my sword in the sand I'm going to go on home to Jesus Over in glory land I'm moving to the sky In a heaven, on a high Well, all...

I have heard of a land On the far away strand 'Tis a beautiful home of the soul Built by Jesus on high Where we never shall die 'Tis a land where we never grow old Never grow old, never grow old 'Tis a land where we never grow old Oh never grow old, never gro...

Don't bring me bad news, no bad news I don't need none of your bad news today You're a sad little boy, anyone can see you're just a sad little boy That's why you're carrying on that way Why don't you burn it all down, burn your own house down, burn your own ho...

"Nobody's Cryin'" As I'm sittin' in the taxi for the sky He's off to slay some demon dragonfly And he looks at me, that long last time Turns away again and I waved goodbye In an envelope, inside his coat Is a chain I wore, around my throat Along with,...

As I'm sittin' in the taxi for the sky He's off to slay some demon dragonfly And he looks at me, that long last time Turns away again and I waved goodbye In an envelope, inside his coat Is a chain I wore, around my throat Along with, a note I wrote Said...

She sees him laying in the bed alone tonight The only thing a touching him is a crack of light Pieces of her hair are wrapped around and 'round his fingers And he reaches for her side, for any sign of her that lingers And she says you are not alone Laying in...

Well he broke through the barrier and rode down the hill A sound like thunder then everything stood still Back home the widow wondered where he'd gone In the evening the meadow sings without care His eyes staring blankly up into the air The cars far above him...

Meet me in the evening, where the river is low Meet me on the waters of the Ohio No lines, no lines, the river is a river, not a line My blood is the water and it’s darker and deeper than time If the hounds are howling, then you cannot hide My friend, I...

Let's take a ride to the seaside We can go out swimming in the high tide Just wear your shorts and your long hair Don't forget the lawn chair Everybody's gone to the movies Everybody's gone and its groovy They went to the one about the big war I didn't, I'd se...

I took off my iron smile Because I found it weighed me down Tomorrow when the world wakes up I'll be in another town You don't know what you want At this moment you think it's me so you Move your hand across my knee Turn me into some novelty Yes I'm one more...

Heaped from a snowy white mountain Slipped down a snowy white hill Came from a water fountain Water was sweet until Sunshine on a shiny ocean Sunshine on a shiny bay I opened a tiny shutter and Sunshine blowing me away And I don't know a thing Don't know a t...

Hey, Peter Pan I'm going home now I've done all I can Besides I'm grown now I'll think of you all painted with the night You sit and watch from somewhere As one by one the lights go out I wrote a note to tell you how you matter When the rain came down All the...

You know you've done enough when every bone is sore You know you've prayed enough when you don't ask any more You know you're coming to some kind of understanding When every dream you've dreamed has passed and you're still standing Mama says god tends to every...

You took a silver train all the way to Maine On the way to everything Railroad wings There's things you don't know you know I thought anger told me what to do With emptiness chasing me On the border, I found you You should've heard her sing Railroad wings Th...

It's hard to listen to a hard hard heart Beating close to mine Pounding up against the stone and steel Walls that I won't climb Sometimes a hurt is so deep deep deep You think that you're gonna drown Sometimes all I can do is weep weep weep With all thi...

Mary,Mary, Mary, mo ma ma mo Mary, Mary, Mary... She comes swinging in With her tire iron She hits everything in sight When she gets flying And in the end no one survives No, sakes alive They all die She hates the morning She hates the light She hates the dar...

She was a flower for the takin', her beauty cut just like a knife He was a banker from Macon, he swore he'd love her all a his life He bought her a mansion on the mountain With a formal garden and a lot a land But paradise became her prison, that Georgia...

As I row, row, row Going so slow, slow, slow Just down below me is the old sea Just down below me is the old sea Nobody knows, knows, knows So many things, things, so So out of range Sometimes so strange Sometimes so sweet Sometimes so lonely The further I go...

Dear God, I pray all unafraid as we're inclined to do I do not need a handsome man if they're indeed like You I do not need one big and strong nor yet so very tall nor need he be a genius, Lord nor wealthy man at all and let his head be high, dear Go...

I'm gonna let it be the field The one that rain forgot I'm gonna let it be the summer I'm gonna let it be your face The one that ran away I'm gonna let it be forever I'm gonna let it rain and hail Let the rusty nail No longer hold this world together...

Silver bell Silver bell Yeah that's the name of the old motel You were traveling when they fell Down on a bed at the silver bell How you been I'm doing well I hear you're digging a hole to hell How you been I'm doing well Meet me tonight at the silver bell I...

Have you ever been baptized in the cool winter water On a Sunday morning when the sky was gray? You filed out of the churchyard, so cold it was silver To gold, tan, and blue cars, and the cars drove away All the memories fade, send the ghosts on their way Tell...

You used to make me so mad Make me so mad I was almost glad why you make me so mad And if I wasn't still mad Probably feel sad Sorry for you So sorry and sad Nothing was ever free But you still had me You didn't want that better than me (?) And if there was n...

I'm standing in the shadow of the hill I'm standing in the shadow of the hill Feel the fear everywhere Hope it don't get me killed I'm standing in the shadow of the hill I'm standing in the shadow walking blind I've been unfair & unkind Turned away from yo...

Little old man, little old man staring down the road Waiting on the bus, he's getting kinda cold Bus finally gets there, he got nowhere to sit down And the driver said, "You can stand right here behind me or wait for the next one to come around" And the old ma...

I met a little girl and I settled down In a little house on out on the edge of town We got married, swore we'd never part Then little by little we drifted from eachother's hearts At first I thought it was just restlessness That it'd fade as time went by, and o...

Sweet Lorraine the fiery haired brown eyed schemer Who came from a long line of drinkers and dreamers Who knew that sunshine don't hold up to dark Whose businesses fail Who sleep in the park Lorraine who spoke of paintings in Paris And outlandish things to her...

Out of the tree of life I just picked me a plum You came along and everything's startin' to hum Still, it's a real good bet, the best is yet to come Best is yet to come and babe, won't that be fine? You think you've seen the sun, but you ain't seen it shine W...

A Samarian woman Came running to the city To talk about the man she saw She took her pitcher Went to the well Water she intended to draw The stranger she met there She didn't know where he came from But when he told her Every sinful thing she had done The man...

Midnight, and I'm feeling all right but my baby is tired We drove down to a party in town And I should have known I was gonna drink too hard The windy road when I'm driving it home Every twist and turn I've had enough of the way I was Seems like by now it's ti...

You were so cruel I hated being your fool So I got a little bit more mud on my face But the years will bring a bigger scheme of things And make a pretty memory out of my disgrace I don't believe there is such a thing as saying too much There are those who like...

Tomorrow night will you remember what you said tonight Tomorrow night will all the thrill be gone Tomorrow night will it be just another memory Or just another song that's in my heart to linger on Your lips are so tender, your heart is beating fast And you wi...

Does anyone remember Tony A quiet boy, little over weight He had breasts like a girl When I wasn't too busy feeling lonely I'd stare over his shoulder At a map of the world He always finished all his homework Raised his hand in homerooom He called the morning...

I wished I was smarter Wished I was stronger I wished I loved Jesus The way the my wife does I wished it'd been easier Instead of any longer I wished I could've stood Where you would've been proud That won't happen now That won't happen now There's a whole l...

Little pink dress, hanging by her knees Just overhead on the old trapeze In the old tent tonight, spotlight going round One of these nights the old girl's going down Hallelujah, the old girl's going down She started with us on the back of a horse Just sevente...

You don't know what you feel You don't know what you feel Your mind is blinded by the speed of light But your driving a ton of steel Jesus left a love divine Then He disappeared Jesus left a love divine But He didn't leave it here There's a million cars and...

You might get lucky some days, not a drop of rain And you're too long on the town and you leave your trouble on the train And then there's only doubt until you're on your feet again There's only up or down The lucky boys upstairs with their penthouse views Ma...

I went up to the mountain Because you asked me to Up over the clouds To where the sky was blue I could see all around me Everywhere I could see all around me Everywhere Sometimes I feel like I've never been nothing but tired And I'll be walking Till the day I...

Say goodbye to the old street That never cared much for you anyway The different-colored doorways You thought would let you in one day Goodbye to the old bus stop, frozen and waiting The weekend edition has this town way overrated You walk across a baseball f...

Adiys, oh Virgen de Guadalupe Adiys, oh Madre del Salvador Desde que niyo nombrarte supe Eres mi vida, eres mi vida, mi solo amor Adiys, oh Virgen madre querida Adiys refugio del pecador Eres mi encanto, eres mi vida Dulce esperanza, Dulce esperanza, en mi do...

Wade in the water Wade in the water, children Wade in the water God's a-gonna trouble the water God's a-gonna trouble the water. Well, who are these children all dressed in red? God's a-gonna trouble the water Must-a-be the children that Moses lead God's a-go...

I was talking to a lady a few days ago And these are the words she said If you see my child somewhere As you journey here and there Tell him I'm waiting for my child to come home I am waiting and waiting for my child to come I'm waiting and waiting for...

Where is now my father's family That was here so long ago? Sitting 'round the kitchen fireside Brightened by the ruddy glow We shall all be reunited In that land beyond the skies Where there'll be no separation No more marching, no more sighs Some ha...

Red lights are flashing on the highway I wonder if we're gonna ever get home I wonder if we're gonna ever get home tonight Everywhere the waters getting rough Your best intentions may not be enough I wonder if we're gonna ever get home tonight But if you brea...

I'll never be sad, I'll never be lonely I'll never be hungry and I'll never be homely Never make a noise when I'm kissing a boy Amen amen Old John Paul is keepin' a tab In his big red folder At night he is dreaming Of hollow candle holders Big is the weight of...

She sees him laying in the bed alone tonight The only thing a touching him is a crack of light Pieces of her hair are wrapped around and 'round his fingers And he reaches for her side, for any sign of her that lingers And she says you are not alone Laying in...

I watched your window I watched your shadow I looked for another But you'd already gone I felt the wind blow Cold on my shoulders I felt your love go Blowing out cold We had the real thing Up there in the moonlight Didn't cost nothing But each of ou...

You first found me in my holding pen Stopped to take a look and stuck your finger in I bit one off and you came back again and again Then the nice people let me out one day And you told me how to act and What to say But you never get what you wanted that way...

Maybe one day along the way You'll remember me on this island Smiling at you how I used to Maybe one day, you'll remember And it won't be sad to think of all we had All unhappy ends will be behind us then Maybe one day along the way You'll think of me, and yo...