Sam Roberts

The cinematic after effects of alcohol Have led me to believe That there's nothing more beautiful Than a face as it starts to fade From your memory, what had Once been clear as the day Obscured by the shade And I was always the thorn to your rose A long stri...

He was born in a small town And he was given every reason to stay Hallelujah, Mississippi, postcard living no sign of decay Till Vietnam moved next door, then Hallelujah was off to war In the dream he couldn't finish the deed He didn't smoke any weed so why le...

Another day breaks and the last one's gone You dig deep just to carry on Your debt's paid off but it don't feel gone So you slip out the back and you're moving on I can never figure out how to make a case That this don't amount to a fall from grace She wants...

One life to live, but we're doing it wrong, you see Got a brother down Cause he's nothing to me Yeah, he's nothing to me Everyone saying that it's wrong to cheat But there's no other way to get your life on easy street Get your life on easy street Someone el...

I went out on the street today The Canadian Dream was as far away as it's ever been As it's ever been S.O.C.I.A.L.I.S.M. is here to stay S.O.C.I.A.L.I.S.M. is the only way Frozen land, frozen minds Frozen hands and frozen time 'Cause everything moves real s...

Oh what's wrong with me Said oh what's wrong with me I know what I don't want to be A dead end on the family tree And I just lost my virginity To a girl who won't remember me at all Took her out on a shopping spree Happiness never happened for free Could it...

Don't walk away Eileen I've been living for you since the age of seventeen Don't walk away Eileen You've been telling lies and now it's time to come clean Hey, you come around and I Hey, you come around and I Hey, you come around and I Can't keep time Hey,...

We We were always on the run From that old witch up the street In the days when I was young Ride Ride our bikes on into town For some hockey cards And whatever trouble may be found I can never bring them back But those days remain inside the very heart of me...

Feel Feel it grow In your mind In your mind Life Is how you live it Through time Through time And there's no desert sun That is hot enough To feed your fire We shipwreck like fools Only to become The ocean's choir And the sun dies until it's reborn And there...

I found myself on the road to confusion A dull mind and a weak constitution I gave a ride to a medicine man He had a glass eye and white light in his hand Now I wanna run through the green green grass Shins a light on the shadow of the past I wanna feel like a...

When it comes calling, will you heed the call? When it gets heavy now, will you let it fall? And as the loon cries it opens minds The stream reflects these Northern climes Through these days we walk the line Sixteen dollars and a couple of dimes There've been...

I know that we've been moving around And I see that it's been getting you down Well I've found A little lover's surprise My love is freeing and your life is deceiving My eyes are seeing and seeing is believing I know that we've been stuck in this town And I...

Ooh, it's got me mystified, heavy now Deep down to my soul You try to keep the wheel steady now Easy as she goes I can hear on the wind a tale that needs to be told again The horizon bends at either end and the sea can't tell a foe from a friend I know it was...

No sleep I haven’t slept for a week And I’m cold Yeah I’m so cold She’s right I should do something WITH my life But I’m old, I’m old, I’m getting old Those eyes She said they don’t recognize me Those lips They’re never calling my name (chorus) It...

Baby you got me on the run But I'm just having too much fun And I feel your eyes each time we meet And I'm just staring at my feet Yeah you got me on the run You got me hiding from the sun You're so cold I get a chill And you keep breaking down my will Yeah...

She was blessed with knack for giving bad advice He's got five thumbs on his left hand Five more on his right Well her mom left town with the supermarket clerk But her dad was only jealous 'cause the kid had work And the boy stays home all day 'cause of parano...

The air tonight is rarefied It's all I need, the air I breathe You're buring all my bridges baby Set your sights as low as they can go You take up all my time little woman You take up all my time (My Dreams tonight are sanctified) You say your sun don't shin...

I'm Shah Jahan you're Taj Mahal Do you remember that night in the Minah Bazaar You were meant to be mine You were meant to be mine I saw fourteen children In your lovely brown eyes To be King and Queen Was just a disguise You were meant to be mine You were me...

Come make your complaint to the Bootleg Saint He's been gone, keepin' on, keepin' on for your freedom Black boots, brown skin he has chemical roots He's taking back the city one sinner at a time He'll sacrifice if you pay the price He remembers a time when e...

Over land, I traveled time and space and quicksand And for sixty days I knew no other road And through the maelstrom, which turned in time with the kick drum I was swallowed and twisted and spit out on a coast And in this place there stands a gate that leads t...

We are descendants of the free We are the soldiers of the Cause We shouted out the same decree To hold the truth above the law Those were the nights to remember Now they're the nights to forget We sang from May to September and we danced While the city slept...

Met a girl on a farm we started carrying on, late at night she said honey - won't you stay? I said baby that just ain't the way I live Uh Huh! I had this girl in the south she said you got a big mouth, and that ain't right Well I'm no saint, but I ain't bad I...

You know that bad luck will eat you up When's it gonna end? I twisted everything I could Out of words In real life my colours never blend When I was a boy I said to myself That I'd never lean on anyone else Oh, but I was wrong Yeah I was wrong And my mother t...

You feel the weight of the weight on your shoulders Cuz everyday gets shorter and colder And hand in hand we walk through leather fire The mountains bleed red as the sun gets higher All the things that you are I provide 'Til your footprint is swept away by th...

It is such a drag, you're dressed in rags, everybody waving these faded flags, tongue tied a fire inside, caught like a deer in the headlights. Mine, mine, it isn't a lot so why try to take more than I got, more, more, we only want more, it's n...

There goes my mind There goes my mind And it's the same mistake I've made so many times that my own mother thinks I'm blind You can't be true You can't be true And I'm spendin' all my money making sure that things are going right for you Startin' all over to...

Oh, the milky way Has gone a little sour The leaves dried and the flower Fell Away I've been sitting I've been waiting for a sign Inhuman beings Taking up all of my time Want to leave but I've got to stay And I'm wondering more every day Montreal to Hong Kong...

Our love is dark thoughts as it is bright lights It's the sound of a teardrop falling down from a great height So don't let go, let waters flow And babe you have nothing to fear for This is as real as the rain My love for you is as deep as a coalmine You mov...