Tim Buckley

Ain't it peculiar, darlin', How our love goes on and on. Ain't it peculiar, honey, We take the bad with the wrong You know that time after time, A misfortune smiled, Ain't it peculiar, woman, You know we'll laugh our way through. When will this long...

Love me, as if someday you'd hate me For what I give is yours without a name To fill your night long needs Only as long as you say This time you'll learn that love is just a slave To where the heart beats stronger This time you'd need in turn or p...

Aren't you the girl who used to call me names? Aren't you the girl who used to play at games? Weren't you the one who said she'd never fall? Now you're the one who's cryin' not so tall. Yes you're the one, Shall I throw you a crumb? Shall I come and p...

Oh the time it takes It takes to heal Lord I don't understand the reason why It goes this far along But I know I would never believe That you ever lose A single thing As long as you remember As long as you have your dreams Lord it all stays with you...

Because of you, I face the world with pride, Because you are the breeze I drift upon In heaven flows from your eyes, Even though I've told lies, It always seems so long Since we made love this strong, I think it's time we tried, To bring these dreams a...

Well I was born a blue melody A little song my mama sang to me It was a blue melody Such a blue You've never seen There ain't no wealth That can buy my pride There ain't no pain That can cleanse my soul No just a blue melody Sailing far away from me...

Seems like in every hip conversation honey People brag about where they all come from Seems like in every hip conversation, woman I just end up sucking on my thumb Lord I'm just a I'm just a pauper, I been raised in a trailer park yeah, Ain't got that m...

Just like a buzzin' fly I come into your life Now I float away Like honey in the sun Was it right or wrong I couldn't sing that song anyway Oh, but darlin' Now I remember How the sun shown down And how it warmed your prayin' smile When all the love...

I was just a curly-haired mountain boy On my way Passing thru I heard a voice Whisper good evening I turned to a shadow And saw her there So all alone She had those sad china eyes That sang each time she smiled Ah, but the song It seemed to linger S...

The singer cries for people's lies He will sing for the day to bring him night The circus burns in carnival flame And for a while you won't know my name at all But sing and dance and love for pennies and gold The juggling clown smiles to me And every f...

Well come along walk with me And learn the songs that lovers sing When they believe Well dance along the rivers edge Just arm and arm along the moonlit shore The midnight cries Well I just came to chase the blues away For awhile Just like a child you...

You caught me staring So gently you tease me And turn away Unlike the young ones Your movements you savor Like a tango My hideaways Are longing For you You slyly conjure These moments surrounding Keep me tonight All your practiced ways You sec...

Mmmmmm How can i give you even find the rhythm and the time Of you unless you sing your song to me The smell of your sweet skin doens't tangle my dreams May i stand here awhile living your smile? How could you ever know the least you have done Was to war...

I got so tired of meaningful looks I got so tired of comin' up tame I was so bothered by those balmy breezes I was side swiped by smoke fever They was a crawlin' Oh down beneath my skin Til mama come a runnin' A mama came a runnin' Mama came a runnin'...

Sometimes I think about Saturday's child And all about the time We were running wild I've been searching For the dolphins in the sea And sometimes I wonder Do you ever think of me This world may never change The way it's been And all the ways of wa...

Way down on the borderline Down where white folks tread easy That sun beats so hot sun beats so hot When a little girl pass by You can smell the way she walks You can smell, you can smell the way she walks In late afternoon Ah, in late Little girl litt...

Down in the street There's a gunshot warnin' Here comes that blue parade Ready to save the day; Down in the street There's a whole block burning Shout out for rent control I ride the gang patrol; Oh it's just another sign That summer's comin', City w...

Lady time, fly away. I've been thinkin' 'Bout my yesterdays. Oh please, listen darlin' To my empty prayer: Sleep inside my dreams tonight. All I need to know tonight, How're you and my child? Oh is he a soldier or is he a dreamer? Is he mama's litt...

When there's wine in your belly, love rhythm's on your tongue For you are a woman and each man has been too young But for me you were a lover, gently under your cover Your sheet reeks of odors, oh, I came here to hold and be held for a while I've been dri...

I never swallowed that cheap booze I keep my distance from straight dudes, I joined the army just to get more fame, I love my bluesy cause she walks so strange, Ah, well you know I think we ought to have a party, Just to break up the day, Come on and mee...

Well that girl walks in a stormy bitching whine Well she moves that cool black dress all across the floor Tell your mama to sing out, like a slow burn Slow burn your motel walls, over me. Get on top of me woman Get on top Let me see what you learned toni...

The antique people are down in the dungeons Run by machines and afraid of the tax Their heads in the grave and their hands on their eyes Hauling their hearts around circular tracks Pretending forever their masquerade towers Are not really riddled with wid...

I've got ten thousand troubles, a million woes. I got grief in my soul nobody knows. I got heartaches, I got stingin' water fallin' out of the sky. I got a long lost lover, got a reason to die. I got ten thousand troubles, a million woes. I got grief in...

Yes I come around Never know a little sooner Casts a spell on me Casts a spell on me Casts a spell on me Casts a spell on me.... Gypsy woman Gypsy woman Gypsy woman.... Well, you were out trying to turn the tide this morning Now mama don’t you lie...

I saw you walking Only yesterday When I ran to catch you You disappeared And the street was gray The candle died Now you are gone For the flame was too bright Now you are gone I heard you laughing With your laugh of gold When I called out to you...

Ah, it's a happy time inside my mind When a melody does find a rhyme Says to me I'm comin' home to stay Oh, lord, home to stay I'm comin' home to stay Home to stay Ah, lord, it's just the same old story Something about love for glory A nickel and a di...

Black tan brown and white Repeat the order and we've tried All the lovely little steps That hope turn the eyes And footsteps of you Friend to lend for once Behold that healing festival Complete for an instant The dance figure pure constellation 

I don't know why, You bring my sense alive, You know you look so foxy wise You turn my head around You know the talk's around town You do a funky rumba You make an old man stop You make a young man wonder; Come on and love me Come on and love me...

The song of love is a sad song For we have loved and it's so So come and dance a while Lily Come and join the show Come dancin', dancin' dance a while Come dancin', dancin' dance a while Come dancin', dancin' dance a while with me The circus comes once a year...

Well I wish I was your sweet little honey man, Just a hanging 'round the rising sun, You know you can't hold out against a boy who's A whiskey fast and a honey slow; I wish I was, I wish I was your, I wish I was your honey man, I wish I was your, sweet l...

Sittin' in a Hong Kong bar Sweet dreams of you darling Ah when we were sweet sixteen Mama makin' love in the belly of an old freight train Life was so simple and easy Oh the sun went down You took care of the children darlin' Then you felt like movin'...

Summer princess, midnight maiden When I first saw you I just breathed Into your smile my past went fadin' Inside your voice, my mind was sheathed In lost lagoon, we waited, wadin' Along the streets we went paradin' Never looking back to where we'd been...

I had a talk with my woman late last night And she reassured me everything was alright And time hung still like a falling rain Now I know at last that my love is safe Ah but when I go away my love I leave Lord I'm but half a man without her by my sid...

It's been so long Since you've been gone I don't know where to begin this song Whereever you are I hope it's not to far For you to hear me It's been so wild Lay next to me Cry please don't run But i wouldn't fight or carry a gun I went far...

Here I am believin' words again Here I am tryin' to find your love again Here I am down on my knees again Prayin' for a love That we used to know Both of us know How hard it is to love And let it go Both of us know How hard it is to go on living that...

I never asked to be your mountain I never asked to fly Remember when you came to me And told me of his lies You didn't understand my love You don't know why i try And the rain was falling on that day And damn the reason why The flying pisces sails for...

Now the sun sits on my hand O where are you ? Walking the wind I fly above the shore of the town To the hills where I can hear The harbor bells ring slavery Where the fortune teller sighs to me O I see your woman in the raw Ride a mare of stone and howl...

Hey I've been out walking, ain't done too much talking these days Ah Lord I sit alone and weep all the time to hesitate Ah now darling don't you cry I'm just waiting for the sun to shine Ain't got no heart to sell you Ain't got no time to tell you All t...

It happens every time. Give my love, She leaves me behind. It happens every time. The sorrow makes me lose my mind. If she'd only be as true as I am, And listen to my love that's sayin', Oh baby won't you stay mine Your lovin' makes me feel so fine...

Somewhere old memories Echoed from the street in a Crying hole Just a song from long ago When I lost my easy gods to the Harlem insect laws I heard your baited moans and the passing cars and the swirling songs and the black man's bones Through the walls...

O whither has my lady wandered? I'll search until I know I've found her One green day she left her wings And cut away her childhood strings But dropping smiles along the trail She left a trace I will not fail O whither has my lady wandered? I'll sea...

Each and every day, every little way, I've been a lovin' you, I can't live without lovin' at night Makes it hard to say it's wrong When I know it's right Even though the years won't be kind I love you more than I care about myself, I love ya, hate ya fo...

Let the sun sing in your smile Let the wind hold your desire Let your womans voice run through your veins Let her be your blood don't feel ashamed She's your home when no one wants you She'll give you life when you're so tired She'll ease your fea...

I was lost without a song without a melody You came into my hotel life You made my room a home Ah now, mama, don't you know what you done Ah, you made the sunshine in the city Oh, you warmed my heart You changed an old man filled with pity Back to a...

I'm fitting out I'm fitting in And those diesel rigs Ah, they're rambling by But I ain't blue Now, if I go lame Ah, I just flag a ride I'm looking out now For a street corner girl I'm looking out For a street corner girl And she's gonna beat m...

Operator, number please, it's been so many years She'll remember my old voice while I fight the tears It's been twenty years or more now, Martha, please recall And meet me out for coffee where we'll talk about it all And those were days of roses, of poetry an...

You take the train from Yuma, Down to Mexicali, And by the crack of midnight You've got that border town fever, Well down in Madam Woo's cafe In back of She Cat Alley Madam Woos mix some Mexicali voodoo Mexicali Bella Bella voodoo Americano don't yo...

Under a loop of stars in the vulgar cold The dead airport lay By the pebbles of the highway Through the snail clouds You soared to your lover I hurried away my darling With a howl in my throat. Hiding inside the weeds In the orange grove, The black r...

I lit my purest candle close to my Window, hoping it would catch the eye Of any vagabond who passed it by, And I waited in my fleeting house Before he came I felt him drawing near; As he neared I felt the ancient fear That he had come to wound my door a...

"Comme la chanson est belle" Chantez la Mademoiselle Dansant dans le Moulin Rouge "Love is a leap" she sighed "Someday I'll be your bride, When I leave the Moulin Rouge" Je vais marier ma fille de danse Et habiter en France "Comme la chanson est be...

I went down to the meat rack tavern And found myself a big ol' healthy girl Now she was drinkin' alone Aw what a waste of sin So I went on over to sweet talk that girl Lord I moved on in Lord I whispered come on and move with me Move with me move with m...

I was a nighthawkin' in my taxi On a cruise below the deadline My fare was a shaky ol' lush So I kicked it over and took off Then he whipped out this switch blade Straight outta nowhere level to my throat He said "You ever been over to the war boy"...

Photographs of guns and flame Scarlet skull and distant game Bayonet and jungle grin Nightmares dreamed by bleeding men Lookouts tremble on the shore But no man can find the war Tape recorders echo scream Orders fly like bullet stream Drums and canno...

I left my baby standing in the backdoor crying I left my baby standing in the backdoor crying She said "you got a home as long as I got mine" She said "you got a home as long as I got mine" And nobody walking, nobody talking Ever pay the price I owe...

Once I was a soldier And I fought on foreign sands for you Once I was a hunter And I brought home fresh meat for you Once I was a lover And I searched behind your eyes for you And soon there'll be another To tell you I was just a lie And sometimes I w...

Drops of persperation johnny Coming over me hey buddy Pour another glass of cola Pass it to me Round of coca cola Add some sweet potato to it You know everybody wants to get a peanut butter heart Drops of persperation johnny Coming over me he...

If a fiddler played you a song, my love And if I gave you a wheel Would you spin for my heart and loneliness Would you spin for my love If I gave up all of my pride for you And only loved you for now Would you hide my fears and never say "Tomorrow I mu...

You don't remember what to say You don't remember what to do You don't remember where to go You don't remember what to choose You wheel, you steal, you feel, you kneel down All the stony people Walking 'round in christian licorice clothes I can't hesit...

Your sweet love is like a quicksand, A pullin' me under, and I wonder, How deep does it go, You know the sky is closin' up above me, Everytime you touch me woman, I'm like a tiger prowlin' in the moonlight Quicksand, quicksand a pullin' me under; Someti...

Sally go round the roses (4x) Oh, Sally don't you go down Oh, darlin', don't you go down Honey, the saddest thing in the whole wide world Is to find your woman been with another girl Sally, don't you do down Aw, darlin', don't you go down I'm going do...

Sally go round the roses (4x) Oh, Sally don't you go down Oh, darlin', don't you go down Honey, the saddest thing in the whole wide world Is to find your woman been with another girl Sally, don't you do down Aw, darlin', don't you go down I'm going do...

Sefronia shook the black cat's bone at me And I was only wax in the spell of fire Oh my coal black sister, When black coal burns it ripens She pried the whip out of her master's hand And lashed at her own skin So she'd be master, how could she know Th...

I couldn't buy you with a hundred cattle But you hike in shells and feathers Up the African beach, I am king here, tied to this hut by the King's chain My power's like a tree and green taboo to me The chameleon lies in your dusty fingers, And blue flies...

She is the day that gives me time To love and linger, love my life Til night comes on with sundown scythe To end the pause of pantomime She is the day of love She is the bridge on which I wait To watch the river 'neath me flow All swimming and surging...

In my heart is where I long for you In my smile I search for you Each time you turn and run away I cry inside My silly way, just too young to know anymore In my world the devil dances and dares To leave my soul just anywhere, Until I find peace in...

Oh, I don't get no letters Nobody calls Nobody comes round here no more No pretty ladies No pretty boys Nobody comes round my door no more It's just lonely, yeah Mama you don't know It's just lonely, yeah Mama you don't know Cops treat ya dirty An...

You've got the untortured mind of a woman Who has answered all the questions before. You've got the free-givin' ways of a woman Who has kicked all the heartache out the door. And Janie, don't you know? Janie, don't you know? I been tryin' Janie, don't yo...

When I sing I can't bring everything on the wing Flying down from dizzy air To the ground because I care You will be love and your love will live I smile, I beguile all the while every mile As I walk across the sky Of the clockwork, of your eye You wil...

With your beautiful hair And your sixteen years You kissed me as I lay still If I can see you never, Then I'll sleep forever All my lonely love to kill. 

Long afloat on shipless oceans I did all my best to smile til your singing eyes and fingers Drew me loving to your isle And you sang: "Sail to me, sail to me Let me enfold you Here I am, here I am Waiting to hold you" Did I dream you dreamed about me...

I am a bee out in the fields of winter And though I memorized the slope of water, Oblivion carries me on his shoulder: Beyond the suns I speak and circuits shiver, But though I shout the wisdom of the maps, I am a salmon in the ring shape river. 

Just like the sun chase the moon around, Just like the fox--he chase the rabbit down, Well I've been wantin' you woman, But it ain't no habit, No don't you come too near me, 'Cause I'm a liable to grab it: 'Cause I'm a stone in love, I can almost taste...

I got this strange strange feelin' Deep down in my heart I can't tell what it is But it won't let go It happens every time I give you more than what I have But now all I need is a little time to sing this song And I think we're gonna find a way to lose...

Just for you with your open hands Waiting for the touch of man Clutching with your blackened gloves You try to capture all the doves That flee into The forest before you You wish to catch and cage me now I wonder if you remember how Hard it was to say...

Why I cheated on you? Well I had to be a hunter again. This little man had to try To make love feel new again. 'Cause there's just a few things, honey I'm not old enough to do for you. Ohh. And they're the things, momma You just never care to show me....

I had a love affair With a cross eyed flamingo And every morning She'd met me by the rail On her wings She would take me Up to the sun Sailing on he breezes Singing you you belong to me Now You belong to me Just as long as there's a pearl in the sea...

I live by the river And I hide my house away Then just like the river I can change my ways Oh, if you come to love me You would stay forever Inside my heart Inside my dreams And time will fade In time we'll love In the street we walk as beggars In...

Ah, tell me mama Ah, tell me darling Now that it's time for me to go Ah, don't you hold me down And kill the man you love Sweet mama what you gonna do Ah, now darling what you gonna do Mama what you gonna do for love Ah, when that sun shines Ah, honey...

They told me all the hymns were born Out of the saxophone, And I went down to test them all Beneath the Tijuana moon, I saw violence in the moon Two broken lovers strong and strewn, I drank myself into a dream: Tiajuana moon, My daddy Tiajuana moon,...

As she walks near me my blood feels the chance All spinning and swirling it yearns for the dance To become part of me poor one to take part of her Don't say that tomorrow will bring me her love Don't let me wait for words undestined from above Let m...

Well let me tell all you pretty women One tiny word of advice Tell you pretty woman One tiny word of advice Just do me one favor Won't you understand your man You gotta wake up in the mornin' Keep your lovin' daddy by your side Wake up in the mornin'...

You came to me with fire inside Your movements and your pride And asking to be rescued from The pain you had become I tore apart the prison and I hid you in my hand In the blue light of Christmas-time Santa Claus was kind I wonder if you'll ever grow...

Wanda Lu could you ever be true Wanda Lu could you ever be true You're the only Mexican girl in town I know honey I know good and well we're gonna fit it like a glove now, I got a hand full of Spanish songs and wine, We're gonna get it in the back seat ho...

I know your kind, You've been throught the mill, Now you're standing in line, Too proud to beg and too tired to cry, About the one that got away, Your first love Oh he taught you how to pay And now you're all alone You've got your misery, You were not...

Although you've spoken many times before A sight of birth he leaves you by a door And now you know he doesn't understand And all you need is the warmth of his hand And if he'd smile your loving blood would dance One silent kiss leaves you in a trance...

Set me free why don't you baby Get out my life why don't you baby Oh you don't really love me You just keep me hanging on Oh you don't really want me You just keep me hanging on Why do you keep running around Playing with my heart Why don't y...