Ryan Adams

I got sixteen days One for every time I’ve gone away One for every time I should have stayed You should have wore my wedding ring I got sixteen days Fifteen of those are nights Can’t sleep when the bed sheet fights Its way back to your side Well the ghost has...

The sun is shining hard at my feet And the city is an animal ready to eat It's raining like a nose bleed, cigarettes and sweets And I feel it coming on Bloody as the day I was born It's 1974 Just like the day I was born It's 1974 She isn't crazy She's just...

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I was a poor little kid in the lungs of new York Just like a motherless son of a bitch Loaded on ephedrine looking for downers and coke Like a sun that just wouldn't set out on the horizon Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs I took a train and came u...

The engine turns on a dime But I ain't goin' nowhere, tonight I ain't been goin' nowhere for quite awhile Can't tell the truth in a house of lies Can't explain what I don't know One shot, one beer and a kiss before I go One more kiss 'fore I go One more night...

Oh my land is like a wild goose Wanders all around everywhere Trembles and it shakes til every tree is loose It rolls the meadows and it rolls the nails So take me down to your dance floor And I won’t mind the people when they stare Paint a different color on...

Look at this ocean with everyone drowning Idiots screaming and everyone sinking in slowly We're surrounded In the yellow lights of the city wasted as bodies In bed with somebody a touch away with nothing to do We're surrounded I'm really dying here I'm really...

People like you always want back The love they gave away And people like me wanna believe you When you say that you've changed The more I think about it now the less I know All I know is that you drove us off the road [Chorus:] All you had to do was stay All...

All these things keep running through my mind Everyone and everything I left behind Standing in the cold great dark Watching cars go by And all these things keep running Through my mind Am I safe? Am I safe? Am I safe? If I don't wanna be with you E...

I don’t know why I let go I want to be your friend Flowers grow through my window and I love you again Oh I love you oh When you laid me down into your beautiful garden Flowers in the love of my arms It’s God shining through to me I guess It’s God shining thr...

Did I slip? I know I stumbled Did I trip? 'Cause I know I fell All's I know is I'll wake up here in my clothes tomorrow But oh, girl I wish I knew you well But oh, girl I wish I knew you well But I'm just sayin' hi, to your answering bell Did I run? I...

So, I am in the twilight of my youth Not that I'm going to remember And have you seen the moon tonight Is it full? Still burning its embers The people dancing in the corner, they seem happy But I am sad I am still dancing in the coma of the drinks I just had D...

Crush it up into a paper ball, let it fly It hits the wall, hits the trash can on the side Crush it up into a paper ball, let it go Anything I ever had to say, it's all gone Anything I say to you now is just a lie Anything I say to you now but goodbye A...

As he stared past the fire, His hunger to leave well it gnawed his poor heart alive, Her skin smelled like black cherry, blossom perfume, the sail boats they all sailed by... and a river she cried. And the wind was suddenly sweeter than Roosevelt pine,...

I found your photograph in a cardboard box in a magazine I can't remember you, remember us or anything I taught you how to feel, but you just feel numb They taught you how to feel, but you just feel numb She comes apart in the avalanche Fades out like a dance...

Baby, have to do this? I was thinking that you could be trusted Baby, have to ruin what was shiny? Now it's all rusted Did you have to hit me, where I'm weak? Baby, I couldn't breathe And rub it in so deep, salt in the wound like you're laughing right at me I...

Hold me up hold me down Leave me in the withering pines Steal my love steal my kisses Take em to the bartering lines Ten cents up two bucks down Shit it out and turn it into fuel Three bucks shy Leave it on the table till somebody else with moneys got a use...

All I wanna do is get up, is get up, is get up In the morning in the morning And not wanna die I feel alright when I think about you Walking through a star field covered in lights Wasted like you're losing your job you're so fired We're just like the ones we...

Nice to meet you, where you been? I could show you incredible things Magic, madness, heaven, sin Saw you there and I thought Oh my God, look at that face You look like my next mistake Love's a game, do you wanna play? New money, suit and tie I can rea...

Back in my mind I can see the fadin' lights of the city I gotta ticket on an airplane says it gonna take me away Put I can't take your memory to The place in my bed where I'm goin' to So I wrap myself right up in a blanket of booze Button up your coat, g...

I'd like to say that I tried It fits in with all the suggestions and lies And empty tables With food untouched I couldn't see the future I liked the past too much And I've been going from door to door Like I've got something to sell Wandering like a fo...

Blue sky when you gonna learn to rain? And let yourself go blue for once And let go of the weight you've been carrying In this house, no one goes to sleep for days, Its like were working on a mountainside Trying not to slide, Into the ocean, I can take care o...

For everything that's wrong there is a worried man There is a reason why We just don't understand but will, you got to keep the faith Be patient oh the past is just a memory and heal. Heal your vines you'll heal inside eventually We Were born into a...

Thorn in my side Pain I can't hide Diamonds that won't shine Oh, my soul is black as coal Feel like I'm headed for a breakdown Feel like I'm headed for a breakdown Feel like I'm racing and I can't come down Feel like I'm headed for a breakdown God, d...

Hi, hello, its me again, don't worry ill talk slow Wow, you probably heard I went away Where do we start from? I know From the breakdown, into the fold The breakdown, another black hole Like a shadow in the light, stand up and be counted I was born to b...

The problem is what we want to say What we want to say will just blow us both away It's ice cold and it just rained Everything we were is going down in an endless drain It was broken anyway It was broken anyway It was broken, it was fake I just close m...

Oh baby why do I miss you like I do Oh I miss my sweet And the birds all singing blue And white And white Call me on your way back home dear Cause I miss you Honey I ain’t nothing new Oh baby why did I treat you like I did Honey I was just a kid Bubblegum on...

Rose lived on the south side of town Until her landlord showed up with two hundred dollar bills A notice of eviction on the other hand Now she don't live there no more, And everyone thinks he drowned, I pulled into Mecklenburg on them trains Into a station t...

Walk away slowly You don't have to take this In the spaces and between Sadness on their faces I can see the chains of love The chains Talking about the chains of love Can't take us away Storms are brewing in your heart I don't wanna waste it Better...

Every night I read this novel about you Holding roses in the pouring rain But the ending's tore up, trying to hail a cab Think no one can read you, but I can Well we move into a house down on Cherry Lane And watch the world go by Am I'm missing a page I wann...

The drought was the very worst When the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst It was months and months of back-and-forth You're still all over me like a wine-stained shirt I can't wear anymore Hung my head as I lost the war And the sky turned black l...

Somewhere impossible light still shines and every smile is as if new Sometimes I feel like the static in the attic is making me just confused If I fall will you catch me? If I'm sorry, sorry enough If I fall will you pity me? Will you confuse my lov...

The mirrors in the room go black and blue On a Sunday morning in her Saturday shoes We don't choose who we love We don't choose The lights over the Midway melt on the street In a Sunday shoes, with her Saturday feet She don't love who he choose She don't need...

You built this house You built it stone by stone Hammer in your hand You build this home This house is strong You raised it with your love A shelter from the winds From the cold and dark And nobody has to cry to make it seem real And nobody has to h...

When they call your name Will you walk right up With a smile on your face Or will you cower in fear In your favorite sweater With an old love letter I wish you would I wish you would Come pick me up Take me out Fuck me up Steal my records Screw a...

Orange sky don't go Manhattan looks like someplace else Cloudy with a low fog shelf Into the crowded streets I go Eventually they lead me back home where we used to live I live alone And into bed I go I wish I could tell you just how I felt I...

So, it's how the story goes. And we come to the scene where I'm holding you close. She moves, moves like a thin dulling blade Cuts, all the words that I said. The only difference is, The only difference is, The truth -- The truth is I miss you. Cry on demand....

As a man I ain't never been much for sunny days I'm as calm as a fruit stand in New York and maybe as strange But when the color goes out of my eyes its usually the change But damn Sam I love a woman that rains Clear as a bell and sound as an old engineer Cle...

She ain't lonely now See her shuffle across the floor Yeah, she's happier now See her smile and say "come on" Let's dance all night Let's dance all night Dance all night Yeah, I think she'll be alright I ain't lonely now Yeah, I got someone I love Someone I...

I read a book on you You were doing fine One lazy afternoon You wrote in your diary Your sister Margot, she don't talk Peter, he's sad and rude My thoughts they are with you Who turned you in? Who let you down? Who sold you out? The green police or...

I was never near just a shadow on your walls I was never here at all. Dear Candy... I was never yours. You were never mine. I was never near at all. Dear Candy... This was all a fantasy of yours. This was just a dream you had and I was never here...

Dear Chicago, You'll never guess. You know the girl you said I'd meet someday? Well, I've got something to confess. She picked me up on Friday. Asked me if she reminded me of you. I just laughed and lit a cigarette, Said "that's impossible to do." My life's go...

I got a house full of walls And utility bills, every Monday the company calls I got a nice bed to sleep on And a chest of drawers, where I keep those dreams of yours Cause you're always mine to keep when you're gone Two silvers rings, one's on my finger...

Two hearts fading, like a flower. And all this waiting, for the power. For some answer, to this fire. Sinking slowly. The water's higher. Desire With no secrets. No obsession. This time I'm speeding with no direction. Without a reason. What is this fir...

Last time I was here it was raining It ain't raining anymore The streets were drowning Waters waning All the ruins washed ashore Now I'm just looking through the rubble Trying to find out who we were Last time I was here it was raining It ain't raining...

Do I want to say the things that I say When I know that they are wrong? Do I wait here forever for you? Could you ask me to? I've been waiting here all night If you're not going to show We're not going to fight I could stay forever if I tried Surround...

So, tell me how you feel without your medicine Hold you head feelin' paranoid Sweet sixteen for a schizoid So, tell me how you feel Now you're the only one Held you head in the setting sun Sweet black smoke with the poison Hey, come everybody do Miss America...

I've been thinking about you, baby You've been on my mind Why can't I feel your love? My heart must be blind What can I say? I didn't want it to change But in my mind It's all so strange Do you still love me, babe? Do you still love me, babe? Do yo...

I hate this old place And what it represents And I hate who I was And who I ended up since But if you learned how to swim in case you'd drowned Don't ask her for the water Cause she'll swallow you down And she's ten miles of peace And the hardest of nights A...

Oh gal, oh gal, with your darkened eyes Kindle the wood and prepare the lies And don't fail me know Oh me, oh my, oh beast with might Drown me with water and burn me with fire And don't fail me now Just don't fail me now You don't do me right You don't do me r...

I could wait a thousand years, my love I'd wait for you I could stand in just one place, my love And never move As the fire burns around us in the dark One part is the world and one's my heart My love, we can do better than this My love, how can you c...

Let's take a ride to the easy plateau Where the cold don't come and the wind don't blow Moonlight flickers on the water below The orange grove blossoms In the orange grove Bad nights lead to better days It doesn't matter but I think about it anyway I want a e...

For you Id do anything Tear myself in two Just to hear you breathe Calculate the changes that in time Turn to nothing and then multiply Yourself by pain, And you're not even close Elizabeth Over you I will never be, I wish I knew why It never comes to me, I...

English girls are pretty when they play guitar Crazy like a day just a-breaking I ain't sure what for Ain't got a mother or father or place to fall She got a brother in the (blues / booze), but he doesn't know the blues at all Said you didn't love me, it was r...

Red shoes go sailing through the trees Leaving no traces at all Not even a scattering of leaves Reflections are only your memories Evergreen lay down beside me Evergreen, Evergreen Evergreen make me feel whole again Help me undo these chains my...

You come for me in the worst of places You come for me, you come and try to take me home I'm always in need and it's hard to be reciprocating The fabric of our life gets torn And everything's changing so how i am to know How i'm going to hold on to you when i'...

Are you there? Screaming in the night Somewhere Hanging from the side Feel the sunlight The sunlight on my face It's cold out here Lost in outer space Just so you know You will always be the hardest thing I will let go Driving past your church and...

What makes them walk away, after all these years? These years of learning in the hard way By the lessons from the tears I know it's not a game But it feels like losing when someone You love throws you away I'd fix it, I'd fix it I'd fix it, I'd fix it...

These very moments as they pass Itâs like you’re just dreaming of busting someone else My hands they hold a candle to the pages These days they go so fast, these days of ours Follow the lights that line the streets Connecting telephones Follow the lig...

You ain't but a fire on my sad estate Burning my house to the ground High and meadow, oh how she rides me Out in the meadow where the taxis don't ride A million times quicker than the pain Ohhh, games A million times better than the pain You ain't but a teleg...

Here's a picture of your lonely Fridays Turned to nothing on a Friday night Firecracker with a pile of empties Detonated with a lonely fire I see your face, I hear your voice I touch the phone and wonder Is this explosion gonna set me reeling? Or just another...

I can't talk My mind is so blank So going for a walk I've got nothing left to say I can't see The darkness on the rise I'll be waiting here Until the under tide All my life Been shaking Wanting something Holding everything I have like it was broke...

I watch the evening grow old And I watch the sun grow tired Collapsing into the meadowlands Funny how I still hear that voice Sometimes it's like it's so loud I only hear a ringing sound If only to say this to you now I love you still and I alway...

Riot on the streets, the touch beneath the sheets It's only gonna make me love you more The cops they got the guns, the night destroys the sun It's only gonna make me love you more This old world, well, it was mine to take Faith can keep you warm, but I'll te...

We're going to win Put your troubles behind you And go on to bed Let go of the worry There's so much nobody understands Don't live your life in such a hurry Life goes by us all so fast And the sun will come up again And I will be here If you get scared just ho...

It's happening baby They're putting up the chairs Zaking the money And all we can do is pray Pray for tomorrow So close your eyes So close your mouth And do this all in time to the music That screams like a child in the back of your mind In a clown's saloon...

Hello Gracie you're a good little girl it's a beautiful world oh when you're out in it Last time I saw you playing in the yard You were running with children and the old people were smiling Do you miss me would you know me at all? If you walked by my hous...

Here comes that shit again I've got a halloweenhead Head full of tricks and treats It leads me thru the nighttime streets Black cats and falling trees Under ladders always walking Salt shaker spills just throw it over your shoulder, babe I've got a bad...

I told everybody I was late But I was hiding in the back Hiding in the back my hands would shake Happy Birthday I'm your birthday cake And I'm lit, and I'm baked And I'm tired, I tried to escape From the fight, I got untied I was wrong, you were right....

See the rain on the street The way the cars shine And the scotch that she drinks With her lips so fine And her shoulders go weak As she closes her eyes Oh, my God, when she was mine See how she moves through the door How she loses her keys How she loses her c...

They slapped 'em on you Where that bracelet used to be You know the one I bought you in phoenix Where they sell old jewelry I was trying to make you angry But I didn't feed you to the cops When I threw that drink in that guy's face It was just to piss you off...

Welcome to my haunted house I live here alone, ain't no one else It's the last house at the end of the block My friends all disappear one by one The cracks in the windows and the spiders, they crawl Across the lattice from 1924 Life is too sweet, yeah,...

Lord, I miss that girl On the day we met the sun was shining down Down on the valley Riddled with horses running Crushing them with flowers I would have picked for her On the day she was born She runs through my veins like a long black river And rattles my cag...

Stand there like a ghost shaking from the rain She'll open up the door and say, "Are you insane?" Say it's been a long six months And you were too afraid to tell her what you want And that's how it works That's how you get the girl That's how it works That's...

The light is harsh as it's breaking through the blinds Shadows on the wall cross my face in black lines I'm so disconnected at the foot of the bed Don't know what to say, don't know what I said Maybe every promise anybody makes is destined for the rocks...

You stand with your hand on your waistline It's a scene and we're out here in plain sight I can hear them whisper as we pass by It's a bad sign, it's a bad sign Something happens when everybody finds out See the vultures circling dark clouds Love's a fragile l...

We belong here We belong here There ain't nobody there to tell us we're wrong Hear me say Say this to you I'll stand by your side See you through I promise you that I will keep you safe from harm Love you the rest of my days When the night is silent...

Baby, I know you cannot hear me now 'Cause you're fast asleep But I love you now Colors inside your head go spinning around Like a ferris wheel Exploding and falling to the ground Oh, people are screaming, people are screaming My baby, she's dreaming Oh, peopl...

Poor little rose, beaten by the rain In the wind in the gale, thunder and the hail Sometimes I feel like I'm going insane Without the numbness or the pain so intense to feel Especially now it added up through the years And I, I taught myself how to grow...

It's 2 am, in your car Windows down, past my street, memories start Say it's in the past You drive straight ahead Thinking that I hate you now But you still don't know what I never said [Chorus:] I wish you would come back Wish I never hung up the phone like...

I don't see you've gone past me I don't see it, don't see it Don't see it, don't see it at all I don't see them, they're lookin' for me I don't see them, they don't see me Guess it was invisible Ice The ice Ice Ice, ice, ice Icicle, icicle I don'...

For all the hours here that move too slow There's all this letting go, that don't pass If all this love is real, how will we know? If we're only scared of losing it, how will it last? If I am a stranger now to you I will always be, I will always be Stronger n...

Will you comfort me, in my time of need? Can you take away the pain of a hurtful deeds? Cause when we need it most, there's no rain at all And the dust just settles right there on the feed Will you say to me a little rains gonna come When the sky can't offer...

Guess I'll show my hand Either way I'm losing You still have the goods Back when I couldn't use them Standing by the ocean Like I'm frozen here in time So don't let go, don't change your mind If the stars fall into the oceanside Someone pull the ribbo...

I can't sleep, can't go home Underneath the branches of a sycamore tree On a darkened road With this key, scratched into the wall I spell out your name It's fucking with my head Fucking with my heart As the autumn leaves begin to fall Walking down the...

If you're so kind can you let down your hand? Can you let down your hand if you're so kind? If you're so strong can you shelter the weak? Will you listen as the strangers speak? Bring them calm? Kindness don't ask for much but an open mind Kindness can...

First things first, straight out of the box it's time to open your presents babe here's a family full of light I know it's not much This one is mine, I keep it with me all the time like a crutch Like something ancient passed down from a father something t...

"Ah the night... here it comes again" It's on with the jeans, the jacket and shirt How'd I end up feeing so bad For such a little girl And I hold you close in the back of my mind Feels so good but damn it makes me hurt And I'm too scared to know how I feel ab...

Pink as a rose the sun is fading Can you feel the darkness that surrounds the house Plane as the truth my breath is bated It pinches like a trap shut around the mouse But down the road 'cause we fell in But down the road Hanging round the wish-it-well...

Moving like the fog on the Cumberland River I was leaving on the Delta Queen And I wasn't ready to go I'm never ready to go 27 of nothing but failures and promises that I couldn't keep Oh lord, I wasn't ready to go I'm never ready to go Let it ride Let it ride...

In all my life, Mercy Hasn't known my name this well Like how every sea filters out And leads us gently to a creek We sit around Some of us are strong But the rest of us are weak So let us down But if you must Let us down easy lord Let us...

You plant a rose And if the rose comes up You're thankful to God And when it doesn't you cuss him You raise a child And when the child grows up You got to learn to let go If you can't learn to love him But, oh, what a beautiful thing when you sing Hear all the...

I'm just staring at the moon like it was yesterday Hmm, see my face reflected in the lights on the window in the window pane Trees outside are still I take a sleeping pill and feel a little less pain You're just sittin' in the sun watching the boats rol...

There's strange weather in the back of the room And she's pretty, Jesse's spinning the tunes Eyelashes, and some white leather boots God, what have I been drinking? I could be serious but I'm just kiddin' around I could be anything, anything but sticking...

So glad that you found someone Someone and so fast It's time to let go of someone And put it to rest But I don't feel sorry for you Not sorry at all No I don't feel sorry for him or for her My world is gonna revolve It's gonna keep spinning around me,...

I don't remember were we wild and young All that faded into memory I feel like somebody I don't know Are we really who we used to be Am I really who I was The lights will draw you in And the dark will bring you down And the night will break your heart...

You're like a rain cloud If it rained mushroom clouds Everybody hits the ground Arms folded, head down You're like a missile strike Government goes underground Warhead on legs What goes around comes around Goes around comes around What goes a...

I want to go to Magnolia Mountain And lay my weary head down Down on the rocks On the mountain my savior made Steady my soul and ease my worry Hold me when I rattle like a hummingbird hummin' Tie me to the rocks on the mountain my savior made Lie to me Sing m...

There's something about you That reminds me of all those times When I wasn't sorry, when I wasn't blue The cherry moon it shone down on us Under the stars shining down every one for you If I could count them all I would circle the moon And count 'em back to no...

My favorite song, don't know how it goes It's temperamental like the static coming over the radio When I signal to her satellite, nobody is home And oh, she's never in danger and never met a stranger Heaven and earth, body and soul Tell me that you miss...

My heart is broken My love is gone I lay without you Your pillow cold I am forsaken I can't go on My heart is broken My love is gone If I hadn't cheated While you were gone The well that we'd Been drinking from Wouldn't a dried And turned cold I am forsaken...

Well nighttime let her through Yeah I'm talking to you I wanna see her Precious little thing With eyes that dance around without their clothes So buy a pretty dress Wear it out tonight For anyone you think could out do me Or better still be my winding wheel...

Driving through the streets tonight It's hot, I’ve got the windows down I wish I could call you, I wish you were still around Nothing much left in the tank Somehow this thing still drives Think I forgot what it needed but somehow still survive And all th...

Well I was waitin' around for somebody to die Nobody did but a part of me died I suppose from all that waiting These things they pass in time but the moments get real and it's hard sometimes I think of someone that I'd like to be and I hold that in my mi...

Well, I shuffled through the city on the 4th of July I had a firecracker waiting to blow Breakin' like a rocket who makin' its way To the cities of Mexico Lived in an apartment out on Avenue A I had a tar-hut on the corner of 10th Had myself a lover who was fi...

Out under the stars Dodging them night cars baby Cause when you gotta move, you gotta move Whatever that it was You were thinking of lady You're certainly not thinking Of it now, And nightbirds sing you And empty tune In an empty house In an empty room In an...

No silence, no sound No feeling, on and on and on and on... Go under and go down again and on and on... No pressure, no talk No heartbeat, R-E-S-P-O-N-S-E I go under and go down again and on and on.... Something is wrong, something is wrong Something...

Well, the night makes moves And it shatters like broken glass Better play it cool... better let it pass Have you been screening your smokes? And whispers in an all night bar Better off as the fool Than the owner of that kind of heart They don't know you anywa...

Nobody listens to silence like your girl Whitening margins Mouthing the words Letters flying fast Turning into words Sweeping the floor Making room Pulling up the carpet Staples and all The newspapers underneath And over shards of broken glass Pushe...

I'm as blue I'm as blue as the ocean is true, it's just refelctions of the sky I'm as cold I'm as cold as the stories you told but never sick enough to die Note to self: don't change for anyone Note to self: don't die Note to self: don't change for anyone Don...

I ain't afraid of hurt I've had so much it feels just like normal to me now I'm alone and I'm dancin', with you now, in your old room, in your old house I'm alone and I'm dancin', with you now, in your old room, but there's nobody there Now that your gone No...

This is where the summer ends In a flash of pure destruction, no one wins Go nuclear. Nuclear. The violets in my eyelids goin' red Sentimental geek Shut up and go to sleep The calm, the beach and the remains Of the bathing suits and Porsches all in flames Go...

Here comes your song, it's on the radio Here comes your song, here comes your song Everybody in the backseat, come and sing along We're fucked, we're fucked There's been an accident, somebody stole your face We're fucked, we're fucked You were always so...

Hanging around broadway And I think I saw your face The cars speeding by me Reminding me of us Rats scurry from the gutter to their holes All these people and they're trying to get home And I don't know where that is anymore I don't know where that is anymore...

Something's beating on the wall on the other side Strange lovers moan each others names on by-hour sheets for the very first time One of them's james The other's some name she changes every time she lies across his bed But the light of the moon leads the way T...

I went down to Houston And I stopped in San Antone I passed up the station for the bus I was trying to find me something But I wasn't sure just what Man I ended up with pockets full of dust So I went on to Cleveland and I ended up insane I bought a borrowed su...

Looking at it now It all seemed so simple We were lying on the couch I remember You took a Polaroid of us Then discovered (then discovered) The rest of the world is black and white We were in screaming color I remember thinkin' [Chorus:] Are we out,...

How am I supposed to know When it's time to go In the middle of the night When I'm all alone Don't know what to do Don't know what I'm even supposed to say Like a train gonna go Well it's not a-rolling yet The cars don't move in the middle of the nigh...

P.S. I ain't never comin' back, I ain't never comin' back here again it's over we're through don't ask someone to change, don't ask someone to change again until you know what you want them to change into backed up against the wall, somehow you're still sh...

Lord take me home To the peaceful valley Down the winding river To your city your soul I've grown so tired And my hearts grown heavy To walk any longer To your cities of gold All my life I've loved for forgiveness But I can never seem to get enough All my life...

Blue eyes for miles Pretty as a peach Glorious kind and always on the time never far out of reach Tomorrow's on its way And there's always new songs to sing Glorious kind and always on time like pearls on a string Soft precious and easy Under the sea If you di...

If the walls in the room could talk I wonder to myself would they lie It's like some kind of jail Fall from the curtains onto the bed I'm all alone now, I can do as I please I don't feel like doing much of anything True love ain't that hard to find...

He is drinking water from the faucet from the river From the tributary it comes through rusted pipes Outside his window he sees the water that's supposed to be clean By the chemicals polluted by the candy factory lines Someplace on the edge of town Someplace o...

[Verse 1] Free my heart Somebody locked it up Still waiting on parole I can taste the freedom just outside that door Same gray walls Same great calls Mmm, I know my friends all know Can't keep it under control [Chorus] I know our love is wrong I am...

I can name the people i know that don't know themselves Without talking to nobody I can count to people i know that want to fix themselves Without taking my hands out of my pockets I make these promises but all my promises hurt It's like they never get a lift...

Everybody's cool playing rock n roll Everybody's cool playing rock n roll I don't feel cool at all I don't feel cool at all Send all of my best out to the hand I don't think I'll make it out to the show There's this girl I can't get out of my head There's this...

Whatever it is you know you think you want Well here's a little something to light the way Inside your heart where the darkness stays I believe the sun still rises here but when it falls I'm not sure what there is to say Flickers in mine eye like a memo...

When I pick up my guitar This is the song that always comes Don't know what I'm singing 'bout and Don't know what for I think about you And I think about Rosebud Wish there was a song to sing To bring you back But you can't get here from nowhere I guess Roseb...

What am I doing here? In the setting sun With the windows down What am I? Like a breaking bell Ringing like a sigh What am I doing here? What am I? Somebody save me It's just too much pain If someone can save me From the morning, I will remain Som...

Laura lays on the foot of the bed Mimics a noose with a telephone cord Doctor's on the phone Then she hangs up and says "I ain't never gonna see the winter again" And I don't know how, but she smiles September, September September, September They carved your...

No time to explain Always hopeless in a hurry There's no one to blame For an empty heart Well, well, well Nothing's gonna change Nothing's gonna change our way out Into the sewers at the bottom of the wishing well My heart isn't black It's just dir...

God, please bring the rain Yeah, and bring it soon Let it flood right through the houses Into Judy's room With a father on amphetamines Her mother hides the pearls Reach out into the darkness And find my little girl 'Cause she's angry like a salesman That co...

I fall, in the cutting room Straight to the fall, before the film is through Today in my head, that field of reason why Come a little closer, honey And touch the fire How long do I have here with you? The flowers that once were a new Shadows Heaven w...

I stay out too late, got nothing in my brain That's what people say, that's what people say I go on too many dates, but I can't make 'em stay Least that's what people say, that's what people say But I keep cruising, can't stop, won't stop moving It's like I go...

Head on down to 9th street gal Lets go out kicking with the boys and the gals Wear your dress and bring my ring Someone's gonna get it ain't gonna be me LUCY, Lucy my gal LUCY, Lucy my sweet LUCY, Lucy my gal (I was just gonna hit him but I'm gonna kill him n...

Girl, don't tell me how you want me Tell me how to get through Girl, don't tell me how you want me Tell me how to get through 'Cause I gotta know I gotta know I gotta know I gotta know I gotta know I gotta know you inside out Know what I'm talking about You'...

I am a broken toy For a lonely girl Use once and destroy And go find some more Back home, kids play in the leaves in the park She wants to play a game of hearts I'm the rag doll boy With broken eyes She only comes to me When it's raining outside Back home, ki...

So much for the days of glory It's not like your idols died and are holy now You cross the street and count to ten And everyone that mattered went to bed Or maybe they died Welcome home Miss So Unknown Bet you want it back They all want it back, but you can't...

What ever happened to the old me What ever happened to us Whatever it was it doesn't matter now Those days went speeding by And left us in the dust The car's on empty It rattles in the rust Whatever this is is permanent A red wine stain or a scar Lik...

Midnight coming, I can feel it in the air I hear your voice, run your fingers through my hair I reach out for your hand but I know it isn't there I pick up my phone and I shiver and I stare Morning coming early every day I can barely sleep, I been lying...

I can't find the gun It's only getting worse So I get loaded up On silver bullets And I can't see the sun I know it's gone away I can't be the one If you won't let me stay So go draw yourself a bath And find the kitchen drawer Cause you can't make me smile A...

Today I watched the boats Moving through the harbor Walking on water In your arms I'd stay Forever if I could Forever if I may Keeps me in your thoughts, don't disappear I am on your side And so alive So alive it isn't real If this is how I feel Then nothing...

I want to tell you something That I shoud've, long ago I wish that you and I had those kids Maybe bought us that home I wish that we were still in your room In your bed and you were holding me 'Cause there ain't no way I'll ever stop from lovin' you now There...

All I want, all I want, all I want is a girl Someone that cares enough about me That she refuses to react When I act like I don't care about her Ice-packs for my shiners Though you're on my nerves Someone smart enough to click me back together ?? simpl...

It's midnight, at the Starlite Diner You said meet me at a quarter to twelve And I'm standing in the corner Wishing you were here in my arms, Fare thee well my old friends Fare thee well Is it possible to love someone too much You bet The drugs are in safe A...

It's a long way down, but I feel alright It's a long way down, but I feel alright And the cops get in, and the crowd gets tight Take your tomorrow, pain and your sorrow and teach it how to fly It's starting to hurt Starting to hurt Starting to hurt Starting to...

Love when you call my name It sends me running into the flame I love you baby, just treat me right Hold me closer in the middle of the night I love you girl, and it's alright Stay with me Are you waiting, are you standing guard? There's nothing they ca...

I know a sickness So ancient and cross No crucifix Could ever fix enough In the basement of a church These people, they talk There is a line That must be walked If you wanna make it stop Then stop I know a place Where the future is denie...

Stop dragging my heart around Stop acting, stop fucking around Stop playing, stop playing with my head Alright, already you win... Stop asking if I'm with her Stop it now before you get what you deserve Stop playing, stop playing with my head Alright,...

Last night in the street collapsed on itself In fact, it broke right in two And I fell in The strawberry vines Into a pool of strawberry wine Strawberry wine and clouds Burning in the desert, surrounded in flowers But the stems broke the armor And the morning...

Midnight, you come and pick me up with no headlights Long drive, could end in burning flames or paradise Fade into view It's been a while since I even heard from you I should just tell you, you should leave I know exactly where it leads Watch us go aroun...

Let me go I'm only letting you down I 've got nothing to say to you now I lose the feelings that are weighing me down When I'm safe It's turning morning all the birds sing I'm not complicating anything I'll have another then I'll go to bed But I'll dream of y...

Fair haired gal You got a sister that's mean Hanging around the cigarette machine But when I'm lonely she makes me feel nice When I'm lonely she makes me feel nice Steals my shirt, makes me hurt In the field where my plane went down In the field where my plan...

I wish I had a Sylvia Plath Busted tooth and a smile And cigarette ashes in her drink The kind that goes out and then sleeps for a week The kind that goes out on her To give me a reason, for well, I dunno And maybe she'd take me to France Or maybe to Spain an...

One day we are young And by the next one we are old Despite the years And tears of gold precede the rapture Time has its way With everyone in its path She combs her hair And tears of gold fall on the gray Tears of gold Tears of golden restraint As evidence of...

There you go Waving your arms like a girl Secondary clothes Don't worry, nobody knows Somebody order my round 'Cause I'm getting by With a twelve pack from 12th & Porter with Billy 4:30 a.m. at night 'Cause Tennessee sucks, in the summer What do you got th...

Everyone, when she was young, They said she was the pretty one She's lovely now, just watch her as she goes Waiting for the birds to come She holds the hands of someone young Whose mother comes and she sees her and she smiles Thank you Louise Thank you Louise...

I make reservations at the Crystal Skull for me... For me, and Scarlet, and a a friend of hers I'm not gonna lie to you it only gets worse She gets so disconnected when her glass is too full And Scarlet gets bombed And Scarlet gets high and she breaks in...

I was shooting in the back of the car When the windows smashed on the police cars I was swimming through the streets of New York With my cocaine dagger and throats to cut And it was making her cry... But it was making me high She was a hooker at the age of si...

I don't know the sound of my father's voice I don't even know how he says my name But it plays out like a song on a jukebox in a bar In the back of my head till it's weary and mushy And in the cotton fields out by the house where I was born The leaves burn lik...

Pay my respect to the company store I ain't got no money don't want no more Pay my respects to the company boys now just move along I worked hard for every little bit I got And got lucky once on some advice Met a dark haired girl that the Mississippi moon Must...

When he took my hand How he laid me down To the darkest nights that I ever found Don't drink his wine for you'll taste his blood Oh the poison and the pain Oh the poison and the pain Then he'll pick you up down in Shuffletown And he'll break the dress of you...

Everybody wants you to be special And everybody wants you to be high They throw you down a rope when you're in trouble, Baby Screamin' "save me" They then charge you with the rescue blues And everybody wants to see you suffer They know that you need the pain...

The stars they sink In the oceans of ink Long black ribbons of cars And in the taxi You ask me how I'm doing But you already know Beyond, beyond is not through Its only a reflection of you And something at the window It motions with its fingers Calling me bey...

When you get the time Sit down and write me a letter When you're feeling better Drop me a line I wanna know how it all works out I had a feeling we were fading out I didn't know that people faded out so fast And that people faded out When there was love enough...

Well, girl sometimes i feel just like a boy Put here on this earth for you to toy around with Like matchbox cars you buy and burn in your backyard Like monsters underneath your bed you ain't afreaid of yet But you let me in And i feel alright Yeah, i feel alri...

Tell 'em that the house is not for sale We're still livin' here, how come nobody can tell They're takin' all the furniture, movin' our things Come on little honey, put your head on my knee Tell 'em that the house is not for sale And calm down, calm down, calm...

Let me singa song for you That's never been sung before All the words were meant for you And never been said before She kisses when she sleeps She kisses when she's sleeping Let me sing a song for you A song that's worth the dreaming Don't waste my time This...

Clear blue water High tide, came and brought you in And I could go on and on, on and on, on and on Skies grew darker, currents swept you out again And you were just gone and gone, gone and gone In silent screams, and wildest dreams I never dreamed of th...

Strong winds and my head's on fire Walk another day across the high wire I'm on a tightrope, watch it as it swings Like a countdown ticker on New Year's Eve We run the numbers spinning in the side Counting all the reasons that we're broken and we lied...

Sweet talkin' Johnny push a john quicker than he spit Street walkin' tin with a crooked crown waitin' for it There she goes She born in Boston but the Amtrak took her away She lives in Brooklyn but she works outta Queens in the Black limousines, money in the b...

I'm tired of giving up so easy Tired of giving up at all Tired of giving up so easy Tired of giving up at all Nobody said it would be easy Nobody said nothing at all And I'm tired of giving up And I'm tired of fighting I don't understand at all And...

Well the pills I got they ask me lets go out for a while And the knives up in the kitchen are all too dull to smile Yeah and the sun it tries to warn me Boy those wings are made of wax While the things I do to kill me They just tell me to relax But oh Cinderel...

It's so hard to be without you Lying in the bed, you are so much to be without Rattles in my head that empty drum filled with doubt Everything you lose with wisdom will find its way out Every night is lonesome and is longer than before Nothing really matt...

Young boy you done me bad I went and did ya wrong Young boy you done me bad I went and did ya wrong Then I got high Lord I got high and I got a bone to pick with you And I'm sure you know its true Oh one day when you're looking back You were young and man yo...

Pulled into the station And they're playing Waylon Jennings When you're driving through so late at night You'll see the lights are blinding Yeah, and I'll be thinking of you Home, my baby's going home My baby's going home Tomorrow A million miles of nothing Y...

I knew I was never gonna talk to you tomorrow And oh, the birds how they sing If you were a bird could you sing me a song of sorrow 'Cause all I know from you is grief But I never wanted to be your rolling train I never wanted to be your dancin' shoes I just...

Trouble, I hear the clock tick in the room The walls will crumble, and you're holding The match between the fuse There's something I just got, nothing else to say I've been on the beats since yesterday There's something loose, either way Oh, we might as...

If you take me back, Back to your place, I'll try not to bother you, I promise, 'Cause it's cold in here, And I wish it was hot, The sink's broke, it's leaking from the faucet. And I'm fractured from the fall, And I wanna go home, But it takes two whe...

Here we go again God, i listen but i'm not listening Everything she says You know i've heard it all before So what if i have It doesn't mean it isn't beautiful And everyone needs company... Once in a while Two hearts, one of them will break Like bad ideas on a...

you and I we were born to play these parts and we play them so well so well and often sometimes you and I forget you know who we really are it keeps me locked into the deal Binary stars, companions in the sky always in orbit but never to collide we're jus...

This is the silence so nobody understand Iced ocean leaves our ships just sliding in Could forming, lighting shooting from it's hands Sky's on fire, make a wish and use it quick my friend Come on, come on, come on Let's go it's getting darker Come on, c...

I try so hard to be good I get these bad ides I try so hard to be good It doesn't always work out It doesn't always work out But I try... To feel the sunlight on my eyes Shake off the shadows That were following me around It's very nice you know and...

You come through the door like a bag of rocks Wounded all the time And I'm inside the tomb with the t.v. on mute Elijah don't you come Oh god don't you come I steal out the window like I'm using the door Whispering willows outside Turn into statues of you, f...

From the coast of gold, across the seven seas, I’m travelling on, far and wide, But now it seems, I’m just a stranger to myself, And all the things I sometimes do, it isn’t me but someone else. I close my eyes, and think of home, Another city goes by, in the...

There's evidence now that's somebody's lying And things to work out bout nobody's trying I wish I didn't care anymore, as if you cared what I was feeling Look at all the stars, watch them colliding These Stars fighting in their secret wars Underneath th...

Listen, I ain't got nothing for you But a bag of tricks and a broken noose Nobody hangs around that's got something to lose If I was born to be the loner, okay But I'm not made of stone And I'm so blown away Don't know what's the rubble And the parts I...

Walking through a crowd the village is aglow Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats under coats Everybody here wanted something more Searching for a sound we hadn't heard before [Chorus:] Welcome to New York It's been waiting for you Welcome to New York Welc...

Tell me what sin replaces love I wanna know, right now Tell me what sin replaces love I wanna know, right now Imagine yourself on a mountain Mountain discovered with flowers Flowers discolored with horses Horses distracted by stones Stone distrusted w...

Dancin' where the stars go blue Dancin' where the evening fell Dancin' in your wooden shoes In a wedding gown Dancin' out on 7th street Dancin' through the underground Dancin' little marionette Are you happy now? Where do you go when you're lonely Where do y...

There's something in the way she eases my mind And lays me across the bed till I close my eyes Stirs me in the morning till I can ever be satisfied I leave Carolina every night in my dreams Like the girls that try to love me that I only leave Rock me like a ba...

Oh, why do they leave? Oh, why do they leave? On the day that you needed them the most Simple cards and things Rose-colored sunsets, no flowers for me Simple cards and things Rose-colored sunsets, no flowers for me Lover, why do you leave Lover, why do you le...

Poor girl, no Ma Nothing much to speak of but a rough diamond Sleep now and your angels will come, dear Poor Matilda Handcuffed to the wheel And steering wildly Through love's fields, so blindly Forever only takes its toll on some But, tonight you're sleeping...

She said, "Let's get out of this town Drive out of this city, away from the crowds" I thought, heaven can't help me now Nothing lasts forever But this is gonna take me down She's so tall and handsome as hell She's so bad, but she does it so well I can...

Cotton candy and a rotten mouth You know you're so fuc.ed up You know I couldn't help but have it for you And everybody knows the way I walk And knows the way I talk And knows the way I feel about you It's all a bunch of shit And there's nothing to do around...

I can be taught but I'm not learning Over and over I lose I make mistakes, get so sorry I can't unwind like yarn from a spool I'm a little shaky gotta learn how to fight The moon shines on the boulevard baby let's ride If you gotta look back, don't look down...

Today is gonna be the day That they're gonna throw it back to you By now you should've somehow Realized what you gotta do I don't believe that anybody Feels the way I do about you now Backbeat the word was on the street That the fire in your heart is out I'm...

If everything you want is something you couldn't have Go outside a while, look up and count the clouds Can you draw a picture of the backyard of the house You grew up in, can you remember how it smelled? Don't worry up your mind People are sick and mean...

Porcelain doll Your mother runs an antique shop She takes some stuff, I take a lot We sleep all day Slow response I'm feelin' like an afterthought I guess I'm kinda lost in space And London's okay She don't even ask what time it is anymore Dressed up like its...

Go on to the street to the cars in the pouring rain Go on to the bus that left us in the dust and the flames And when the son meets the father It'll be something smarter for the pain But you will always be the same You will always be the same Go on little gir...