Phoebe Snow

Just before our love got lost, you said "I am as constant as a northern star" And said, "Constantly in the darkness Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar" On the back of a cartoon coaster In the blue TV screen light I drew a map of Canada,...

I know my parents loved me Stand behind me Come what may I know now that I'm ready Because I finally heard them say It's a different world From where you come from Here's a chance to make it If we focus on our goal If you dish it We can take it Ju...

Nine of diamonds, nine of diamonds Lord, that's a lucky card We'll celebrate it when we've made it I'll jump all over your yard I'll jump all over your yard I'll jump all over I don't know what hit me but I'm seeing stars This comic book life is like being on...

At last my love has come along My lonely days are over and life is like a song At last the skies above are blue My heart was wrapped in clover The night I looked at you I found a dream that I can speak to A dream that I can call my own I found a thrill to pr...

I am the daughter Of poor circumstances Bargained with the future And I took my chances When I met him, he turned the tide Like the Emerald City Looked like the end of the road 'Til he hitched a ride with me Chorus: Shine, shine, shine - Oh pretty ba...

Baby, I need your lovin' Baby, I need your lovin' Although you're never near Your voice I often hear Another day, 'nother night I long to hold you tight 'Cause I'm so lonely Baby, I need your lovin' Got to have all your lovin' Baby I need your lovin...

Raise up, baby, get your big leg offa mine Raise up, baby, get your big leg offa mine They're so heavy, make a good man change his mind I asked you, baby, to come and hold my head I ask you, baby, to come and hold my head Send me word that you'd rather s...

This is my same old coat These are my same old shoes It was the same old me With the same old blues Oh, then you touched my life Just by holding my hand And when I look in the mirror I see a brand new girl, oh me Just because of you, boy Just becaus...

If it has mystery buy it, things must have a price Play it as it lays, lucky number pays, gamble till you win Everybody cash in, yeah You might just keep rolling sevens, time means nothing here You could turn the stone, think of all you'd own, even statues gr...

Take me to heart and I'll always love you And nobody can make me do wrong Take me for granted, leaving love unsure Makes will power weak and temptation strong A woman's only human This you should understand She's not just a plaything She's flesh and blood jus...

Don't let me down, don't let me down Don't let me down, don't let me down Nobody ever loved me like he loved me Yes, he loved me, yes, he did And if somebody ever really loved me Like he loved me then they did Don't let me down, don't let me down Don't let m...

I was feeling lost And kind of ill So I wrote to God on my last dollar bill My finances were nil Please God, help me I'm so poor Send me something to wear And something to eat 'Cause I want to cross over onto Easy Street I want to cross over onto Eas...

Sometimes these hands get so clumsy That I drop things and people laugh Sometimes these hands seem so graceful I can see them signin? autographs What I want to know from you When you hear my plea Do you like or love Either or both of me Do you like or...

She loved a man who was sweet and lean With a madison avenue scar And wherever he went to get away He took their luxury car Where can you run When the old house shakes And it's too hot to make any plans The sidewalks crack, and the whole world quakes '...

Every night I just wanna go out Get out of my head Every day I don't want to get up Get out of my bed Every night I want to play out Every day I want to do But tonight I just want to stay in And be with you and be with you Every day I lean on a lamp post I'm...

This may sound corny, but you know that it's true You tried to warn me, but I'm just following through Found a happy medium I'm up - let's dance! Let us lose this tedium Will you love me? Fat chance. Will you love me? Fat chance. Playing it cagey, 'cau...

I know you're a gamester But I'm the queen of spades The ruler of hearts I shoot for the moon I take my tricks right from the start I'm a sucker for love A joker running wild My heart it can break, ooh it can break Frail as a child Whatever it is, it is Whate...

Save me, save me I'm goin' down, down for the third time I'm goin' down, down for the third time Drownin' in tears from my heart that's hurtin' Drownin' in tears from a love that's uncertain I'm lost in a world without your love A sea of emptiness The love w...

Everybody get in the groove and let the good times roll Got to stay here till we soothe our little souls If it takes all night long It might be one o'clock and it might be three I don't care 'cos time mean nothing do me We've been swinging since I don't know...

I wish I was willow And I could sway to the music in the wind I wish I was a lover I wouldn't need my costumes and pretend I wish I was a mountain I'd pass boldly through the clouds and never end I wish I was a soft refrain When the lights were out I'd play a...

Sleep is a mercy, To men with no feelings. To our tragic hero, Sleep is relief. The battle was won but, The war has been lost. So now take a rest or else, Bask in your grief. Have mercy on those, Men with no feelings. Oh, mercy on those, Men with...

Chorus: He's not just another man He's not, no, no, no He's given Me a newborn birth I found sweetness on this bitter earth He knows the things to say To keep My troubles away And when the worlds He'd say won't do He'll try a kiss or two And if His k...

You are my mantra, you are my prayer My benediction, my conviction, my electric chair My reaction, attraction You expose my every layer You're my poem on a cloudy day Alabaster shores with palms that sway A fleeting glance misread And then I run away You'll...

They ask me how I feel And if my love is real And how I know I'll make it through. And they, they look at me and frown, They'd like to drive me from this town, They don't want me around 'Cause I believe in you. They show me to the door, They say don't come ba...

Oh mommy, mommy Oh mommy, mommy, yeah I stood too near the gaslight And I cried the dirty city mist Had seeped too deep inside It took me on some kind of heady ride They told me Charlie Parker died And I don't want, I don't want the night to end And I don't w...

Late down last night, trying to play my hand Oh, through the window, out stepped a man I didn't know no better Oh boys, in my girlish days My mama cried, papa did too Oh, daughter, look what a shame on you I didn't know no better Oh boys, in my girlish...

Help yourself to my new clothes; borrow some of my daydreams too A few of them came true ... in color, too What's that picture in your frame of mind?.. is it something I can help you find? Oh, the stories I could tell, but you don't listen well, my frie...

Isn't it a shame Not to have something to believe in? To have to cry in public places Frightened by children making faces Travel folders call you So do your memories But the statistics seem to stall you And they whisper "it's a tease" The moon has co...

And I watched the world surround me From inside a phone booth And it began to astound me I tried to keep my couth I said it must be sunday 'cause ev'rybody's tellin? the truth And then again it might be monday Yeah it might be monday 'cause ev'rybody's...

Well, I ride on a mail train, baby, Can't buy a thrill. Well, I've been up all night, baby, Leanin' on the window sill. Well, if I die On top of the hill And if I don't make it, You know my baby will. Don't the moon look good, mama, Shinin' through the trees?...

Lightning crashes, a new mother cries Her placenta falls to the floor The angel opens her eyes The confusion sets in Before the doctor can even close the door Lightning crashes, old mother dies Her intentions fall to the floor The angel closes her eyes The co...

Lord, I just can't keep from crying sometimes Lord, I just can't keep from crying sometimes When my heart's full of sorrow and my eyes are filled with tears Lord, I just can't keep from crying sometimes My mother often told me, angels bonded your life awa...

When the fire, it was burning But I know, I should have been learning And my pockets were full of money I had someone, yes I did, to call my honey And it's love that makes a woman And it's love that makes a woman Something told me that this wouldn't last M...

Oh, majesty of life, please don't escape me It's getting later and the window shades are drawn I'm not the best that I can be and I'm trying to wait and see What can happen to a girl in her hometown And oh, the wilderness The unmade bed, the aching head And o...

Hi, I thought I'd drop by, so nice to see you It's been too long since I was holding you I've been holding on to a prayer 'Cause my dreams never seem to come true Oh, I'm never letting go, never letting go Never letting go, it's not that easy Oh, I'm never le...

No regrets Although our love affair has gone astray No regrets I know I'll always care though you're away Somehow our happy romance ended suddenly Still in my heart you'll be forever mine No regrets Although you found somebody new No regrets Sweetheart no mat...

There'll be no show tonight and no, no The music won't sound right The audience is being impolite And I can't act tonight, don't make me And I can't act tonight I guess I missed my cue When he said we were through He walked up the stage with some ingenue And...

Lady Luck and four-leaf clovers Won't ease this hurt I feel all over My life was one special occasion 'Til you're leavin', dampened the situation I'm standin' on shakey ground Ever since you put me down I'm standin' on shakey ground Ever since you put me down...

You make me laugh 'Cause your eyes they light the night They look right through me You bashful boy You're hiding something sweet Please give it to me yeah, to me Talk to me some more You don't have to go You're the poetry man You make things all rhyme You ar...

When once we lived the juicy life the summer baked the autumn fades you pirate you to steal away with me I remember well you're drunk again sweet heart you'll say careful there, wipe off your sleeve don't go searching very hard for your other half i...

He's got front wheel drive, lots of money, but he don't scare me He's the trigger, I'm the gun--he just does not scare me Chorus: man, you know he's so uptown, I'm so earthbound He sez "ride the elevator! do it now or do it later" How far we fall when we...

I wanna jump but I'm afraid I'll fall I wann holler but the joints too small Young man rhythm's got a hold on me too I got the rockin' pneumonia and the boogie woogie flue Want some lovin', baby, that ain't all I wanna kiss her but she's way too tall Young ma...

i got the blues from my baby down by the san francisco bay an oceanliner took him so far away well i didn't mean to treat him so bad y'know he was the best friend that i've ever had y'know when he said goodbye likely to make me cry and i've got to lay do...

Lady Luck and four-leaf clovers Won't ease this hurt I feel all over My life was one special occasion 'Til you're leavin', dampened the situation I'm standin' on shakey ground Ever since you put me down I'm standin' on shakey ground Ever since you put me down...

It's an I'll wind that blows no good And it's a sad heart that won't love like it should Oh, how lonesome you must be, yeah And it's a shame if you don't share your love with me Love with me An it's a heartache when love is gone But it's bad and even sad...

Tell me what you're feeling and what it all means. You could be defensive or open up and share your dreams. You can keep right on denying or face me and start crying. 'cause this time, when I reach out, it may be my last try. Ooohh baby, I want something real...

You've got the cool water when the fever runs high You've got the look of lovelight in your eyes And I was in crazy motion till you calmed me down It took a little time but you calmed me down When something goes wrong I'm the first to admit it I'm the first t...

You have got a sweet disposition Warm like the oven in my mother's kitchen I've subscribed to your religion Let us share some love There's a rainbow of light about you Now I know I can't live without you If you need me, you don't have to shout Just han...

We see these manifold expressions All at once on his face And that's when we make our confession He has conquered inner space Take your children home I am one, I am one Take your children and tell them All the peoples of the world Should be as one So...

~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~ Did you say , I've got a lot to learn? Well, don't think I'm trying not to learn Since this is the perfect spot to learn Teach me tonight. Starting with the ABC of it Right down to the XYZ of it Help me solve the mystery of it Teach me tonight....

Thank you but I'm just looking Shopping endless malls, waiting for phone calls It rings--it's you--all right--the middle of the night I'm the forgotten fledgling Grounded by broken song, just a sparrow of The blues, till you come by--the middle of the nig...

I saw you leave the bar last night with some nameless, faceless girl. All in once you were lost little boy, and the man of the world. Your lonely nights of conquest can never make you whole. You squander your body, you need someone to touch your soul....

My baby's out there with his lantern Searching for an honest man Oh, it's crisis time stuck in the suburbs Dying on the vine He knows how to give me gifts from above He knows how to give me two-fisted love Two-fisted love (Two-fisted love, two-fisted love) O...

We're children at the awkward stage With moods we can never show That's why it's best to turn this page and go Just go--just go--just go--just go Chorus: You never stay around when I'm feeling fine You're back in time for pain And so my love some bad n...