Wild Strawberries

I think you taught me about everything I think you taught me that too Did you say that you'd pay better If I wanted you To come again tomorrow Go ahead and fire me Mister big Your words inspire me Like your clothes There's a special in aisle c And al...

Nobody cries in Eden Nobody dares it's our home town Everybody cried when angel came tumbling down Somebody said they saw her grave Somebody said she almost drowned Everybody cried when angel came tumbling down She was my only weakness She was my only c...

You and me and Billy Turpine playing by the fire escape You can be the mountains, I will be the wind She will be sin It seems like a long time, swinging on the broken gate Stealing from the clothesline, call call Billy She'll take the blame Mama used to...

I have seen you once with your altruistic bandage And I know that you have given me the eye Let me see you twice and I will be your appendage In this silver dollar kingdom of the blind I bet you think I'm lonely I bet you think I've got you on my mind Yo...

I don't want to be beautiful No one ever hears her speak I don't want to be a diplomat With a heart attack for peace All that I need is a fire escape All that I need is a stone Everything that starts out burning Ends up overgrown I don't want to be a...

Like a cabbagetown rubby reaching for the copper on Bleeker Street Like a coconut commoner combing through the needles on any beach Like you want to know What you need to know Smiling to the camera Looking for the window that no one sees I want to go wal...

Joy is dancing like another thousand coming to my bungalow She's infectious and I think of heaven looking down on me below Don't think about tomorrow You'll never see today Joy is dancing like another thousand coming to my bungalow You turn around and ev...

My daddy was a banking man My mama was a thief My mama taught me how to stand My daddy taught me how to cheat I will rob you till you're blind I will love you till I cry I will kiss you seven times When I crucify you Tell the wind to find herself anot...

Careful in the kitchen Says the man in red He knows exactly where to hang his head Someones in the bedroom Playing with the lamp Love is like her hair beneath the curtain soiled and damp Isn't she so beautiful In her baby blues I'll be over when i kno...

If you ask Uncle Charlie, He'll give you some elderberry wine If you ask Uncle Charlie, He'll give you some elderberry wine It may be what you want But I got what you need-- Cinnamon I'll trip over you any old time you please I'll trip over you any old...

You know everything I'm saying You know long before I speak I saw you at the side of the road with her hands around your neck I saw you at the side of the road and you know I want you back You're my Concho y toro Concho y toro I don't mind what they ar...

Casey brought his own confetti I loved him in the fall He thought we had it made I left him at the picture show I loved him after all Oh mister junior I always miss the curtain call If it's trust that you need I can do the deed Pick up your boots and...

Drinking curdled milk from a silver cup Watching all the boys waiting for the plan to erupt You can talk all you like when you're down on your luck And you're looking for a reason to run Down and out in Canaan On a cloudy day you can see the sun Down and...

Gretta's in the corner but she's miles away Mary's coaxing Adam to stare time in the face And me and Joey Carpenter are listening to the naked miner Talking about the way things were before the world was green I can run where I want On Easter morning Run...

She told me her name was Cymbeline I met her at the corner of Church and Queen She was selling lies and other painted things I hardly even noticed when she touched my ring She sold me a camera for a song A silver instamatic made in Bonn Careful with my...

Here comes Sadie She's okay She showed me her 45s Down by the pool hall yesterday Well hello Sadie What's that you say? Everyone's got the blues on Sunday There goes Charlie He's all right He gave me a wet kiss Outside the liquor store last night We...

There's a penny poised on a whitewashed fence There's a little black boy praying for his government There's a nervous lady reaching for her place There's a red faced son running from his race Everything that rises Everything that rises Everything that r...

I'm not the kind you marry I'm not that kind at all I'm not the one you think you want But I will be the one There when you fall I'm not your bloody mary I'm not that type at all I'm just the writing on the wall But I will be the one There when you f...

Pretty soon we'll be planting marigolds Pretty soon we'll be trading stories What ever happened to the baby that I used to know I sit here staring as my body grows cold And when you tell me I feel fine And when you touch me I feel Fine I caught you fl...

Words can be a problem when you're on parole I don't care much for language I just want her soul She left me just when Pushkin turned to shove The answer to the question who are you thinking of? You've got to give it up Give it up Hold me baby when you...

History is everything Said the professor to the petitioner's girl She, playing with her shoe, Says I just want someone, I just want something new I don't know what hit you Don't care where ya been I just know you gotta' go Speed is everything Said th...

I think I met you on the seventeenth floor When I stood on Margot's window sill Or maybe it was in the Crimean war When I lost my middle finger I really don't love you It just looks that way Radio lover meets serial killer He says it's inevitable She...

Is that a bruise on your shoulder Or the name of a friend Did you cry when you told her Or did you pretend Nobody's hero Ever gets thrown by the wind Nobody's hero Ever kicked them in the shins You should know by now Gravity loves to win I spent som...

The first thing I remember you were walking away You were singing something gentle in the fade The next thing I remember I nearly pushed you off the stage I pretended not to be afraid I played the fool I played the drowning man I will play your heroine...

I got a picture of my friends and me Sitting outside Thistletown Laundry at night That looks like me between the Holly twins Singing hey ho this is your life And there's old Ruby and her worn out magazines And the guy we called Joe Cinnamon who's polishin...

Gunther told me it would take one week I knew for sure that he was lying How long Well I went to see my doctor Only she was crying twice as much as me How long They say suicide is painless But I'd like to disagree I've watched my country cut her veins...

Meet me in a doorway I'll be painting pictures of gates You were so crazy I was so chaste I don't know what happened to me I don't know I don't want to think about it I don't want to think about it You rendered me conscious You cut my innocent face I'm not r...

I've gone and done it again Everytime I think I'm more than myself I go and I've gone and left you again I know I said I'd only be an hour But I ran into a friend I watch the sky my heart beating Fearing for the fear relieving rain When I see those eyes...

Sandi's on her kitchen floor interlude Bobby's got a great big ball on the roof Kittys trying hard to stall and sinking Jaycee thinks its all his fault I guess I'm amused Evil's got a brand new name that's the truth Hope says she's got a pain in her too...

Jackie got married on Valentine's Day It was a lovely wedding He met his bride on the interstate Seventeen miles from Connecticut At least that's what Jackie said Ruby told me she wished he were dead And I hold all these things in my heart Bobby got sho...

You Philistine, your Philistine eyes You can take your five and dime Shove it in your Elvis records You can send your valentines To your very own life sized Marilyn Monroe You keep singing everyday's the fourth of July I keep wondering why I don't know...

They've got you where they want you Nothing's ever gonna satisfy you You think they'll never buy you They're doling out affection Just like a confection It's hard enough to know which way to go Without you in my head This could be my lucky day This co...

Little sister Judy says, "Whoa baby whoa What about my reputation?" She cracks a smile turns on the radio It's the Zombies singing you make me feel so good And she says, "Don't call me Judy don't call me Sam Don't call me anything till you know who I am."...

Just a little thought in the head of the one With the sunburnt cheeks and the eyes to the ground Making earwaxed tongue-tied gutter sounds Thinking of the lost rib, dialing the indelible Thinking the unthinkable-no one's home And the eyes say I don't beli...

Mama I don't want to run away You know that I could never stay If this letter never reaches home I wave goodbye to you and mei mei You know the placards and the common way You wore the hat that never fades You know the hatred for the grave Of everything...

Any last requests before I go Time is fading fast and feeling slow Hit me when I start to dream When I whisper maybe close the screen I'm not asking for opinions Spare me all your little minions I just want to wake inside my dreams I don't know what ma...

I think I missed you in the elevator I think I missed you when I shot too high Just like the bullet in the temple baby I really miss your eyes I know I missed you in Andalusia I think I missed you when I took my time Just like that photograph that Carro...

I'm gonna lie No one's home I'm gonna try To be alone I don't want you messing with my family stone Maybe I'm shy Maybe I'm wild My best disguise Is my style I can't help remembering you scratched my smile I got my own invitation I'll make my own wa...

You were in white I was in gray I was doing circles at the foot of your golden mane You were making speeches You were naming names Somewhere in your eye I think I see the flicker Of a man who's slain Oh--I want to run to you Oh--I want to run to you O...

Maybe I should have noticed When faith forgot her shoes I should have marked the day When pity came to stay And truth settled on the roof I'm not gonna cry when you go Crying leaves me cold And when i'm cold I start to crave Someone warm and safe S...

I want to be the leading lady on my own I want to act sophisticated on my own I want to walk across your ocean I want to file you under C I want to hang your mixed emotion over me I want to touch you where the hurting never goes I want to drive five wi...

Murder cries the cathedral A hungry hawk, a sword, a ploughshare Set the stage in Canterbury Seven years and then Peace lies waiting-fugitive, cloistered and longing Peace lies waiting-hovering above the spearpoints Peace stands higher than my fragile se...

I got a postcard from a volcano Something 'bout a weather change Looking for a new town Hope to see you soon Sincerely My my things have changed I wrote these words upon the ceiling Now I'm walking on the page That kept my broken world Everyone's a go...

I'm not the perfect sister I'm just the wounded one I was created to compare I'll quit while she's ahead I've finally found the rent I'll memorize the words to every other line she says She's got pretty little lips She's got perfect skin I wonder why I...

Ten miles to save my name Steel crosses cold as stone Looking like a gambler throwing coins away I'm feeling so displaced You're painting candy on my faith You're so convincing I am so ashamed Riverrun softly through the hands of people without toys Ri...

I've seen your fame chase the wind like a tongue on fire Self-portrait of a weather vane in windy November turning My love moves me without moving Thoughts escape and words elude me As Sisyphus and Tantalus call my name Waiting for the day The day when m...

Speak of the devil baby I've got my reservations I saw you coming from a meter away I'm not excited I'm not even waiting I saw the picture and I know it's a fake That's how the story goes That's what the people say I'm bitter I suppose But bitterness...

Did I tell you she's not good for you Did I mention she's not free Can I tell you can I show you I've been waiting on my knees I will be your movie star I will be your movie queen I will touch you in the dark When you're alone and bittersweet I've seen...

Tainted Love by Soft Cell Sometimes I feel I've got to Run away I've got to Get away From the pain that you drive into the heart of me The love we share Seems to go nowhere And I've lost my light For I toss and turn I can't sleep at night Once I r...

Maybe you're waiting Hoping the world will spell it's name In an open minded, whole-hearted way Maybe you're waiting Looking for the widow Who's lost between a lie and a lonely way Maybe you're afraid I'm the same way A beggar's crutch, an angel's sigh...

Cali said she saw you walking with a rose in your hand Cali said you weren't walking alone You're about as pretty as the picture of the flowers You drew on my chemistry notes Boy I really loved you oh well That's the way it goes Cali said she saw you ly...

I don't need directions I can see the course You don't need to whisper baby I've heard it all before Hate and lemon under your nails I don't need protection I don't need to show your telling tail I don't need your prohibition I don't need to score Yo...

Wake by Wild Strawberries Transcribed by Gerrit (webmaster@endor.org Tell me what I need to hear And I'll believe you We've been doing this for years And it shows I don't care what people say All I want to do is wake you When I wake you I know wh...

The woman in the window turns to see him wave She says life is like a sailor in a storm Truth knocks once then slips away Love shouts loudly then it fades Like water off a collar slightly worn Walking by lightning Taken by storm Frozen by fire Healed...

I've been to all the familiar places, I've running like a sentence, never begun I've been looking for a way to let you know I've got nothing left to fill the spaces I've got nothing but a center coming undone I've been doing circles and it shows Every c...

How about keeping time with my wicked daughter She would be so surprised just to see your face After all those evil things you taught her I bet you didn't know You could be so cold Meet her in the back of the cellar She will give you wine like you'll n...