TIN CAN FULL OF GOLD

Kristen Hall - Prey To You

2007-04-25T14:18:00.000-07:00

Kristen Hall
Prey To You
(click to download)

I was kind enough to love you
You were cruel enough to leave
At the time I needed you most
You brought me to my knees
If I would have seen it coming
If I could have had a clue
I might never have fallen prey to you

I remember very clearly
When you said in Piedmont Park
That you’d be there right beside me
Now I’m lonely in the dark
Oh I wished upon the hillside
Everything you said was true
Now I’d wish I’d never fallen prey to you

(Chorus)
Look at me now don’t I seem fine
You drove me to tears for such a long time
What will I do when I see you?
Just let my eyes burn right through you

Now I’m picking up my pieces
I camouflage my scars
But I can’t erase the memories
I’m trying very hard
There are still things that remind me
Part of everything I do
Seems I should have never fallen prey to you

(Chorus)

(Repeat 1st verse)

(1994)

1990 – Real Life Stuff

1991 – Kristen Hall Band Bootleg

1992 – Fact & Fiction

1994 – Be Careful What You Wish For

1996 – Thumbprint

1999 – California Made Music

2000 – Live At Eddie’s Attic

2001 – August 2000 Demos

2004 – Twice The Speed Of Life

National - All The Wine

2007-03-20T15:01:00.000-07:00

National
All The Wine
(click to download)

I'm put together beautifully
Big wet bottle in my fist, big wet rose in my teeth
I'm perfect piece of ass
Like every Californian
So tall I take over the street, with highbeams shining on my back
A wingspan unbelievable
I'm a festival, I'm a parade

And all the wine is all for me
And all the wine is all for me
And all the wine is all for me

I'm a birthday candle in a circle of black girls
God is on my side
Cuz I'm the child bride
I'm so sorry but the motorcade will have to go around me this time
Cuz God is on my side
And I'm the child bride

And all the wine is all for me
And all the wine is all for me
And all the wine is all for me

I carry the dollhouse, safe on my shoulders
Through the black city, night lights are on in the corners
And everyone's sleeping upstairs
All safe and sound
All safe and sound, I won't the let psychos around
All safe and sound, I won't let the psychos around

I'm in a state, I'm in a state

Nothing can touch us my love

I'm in a state, I'm in a state

Nothing can touch us my love

(2005)

2001 - The National
2003 - Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers
2004 - Cherry Tree
2005 - Alligator

Catie Curtis - On The Phone With My Sister

2007-03-14T18:42:00.000-07:00

Catie Curtis
On The Phone With My Sister
(click to download)

I pick up the phone
It is my sister she's crying, nobody knows
If the child is gonna be alright
I sit on the floor
And begin trying to say something
That might get her through the night

I say "Remember the days when you would save me
I was eight years old and I'd get stuck in that tree
On the church lawn and I'd be crying
And you would come up to me
And you would help me down"

Over the phone
She sounds like she's dying, nobody knows
So you can't say "It's alright"
She says "I don't think that I have
The kind of strength
I'm gonna need for this fight"

I say "Remeber the days when you would save me
I would get myself lost and you would bring me home
If anyone knows how strong you are
It's your little sister,
It's your little sister"

I can't sleep
When I worry about her, nobody knows
Just how she will get through
So I turn on the light
And I write in a letter, "I believe in you",
I say "I believe in you"

So remember the days when you would save me

(1991)

1989 – Dandelion
1991 – From Years To Hours
1995 – Truth From Lies
1997 – Catie Curtis
1999 – A Crash Course In Roses
2001 – My Shirt Looks Good On You
2003 – Acoustic Valentine
2003 – From Years To Hours...The Early Recordings
2004 – Dreaming In Romance Languages
2006 – Long Night Moon

Alanis Morissette - You Owe Me Nothing In Return

2007-03-03T12:49:00.000-08:00

Alanis Morissette
You Owe Me Nothing In Return
(click to download)

I'll give you countless amounts of outright acceptance if you want it
I will give you encouragement to choose the path that you want if you need it
You can speak of anger and doubts your fears and freak outs and I'll hold it
You can share your so-called shame filled accounts of times in your life and I won't judge it
(and there are no strings attached to it)

(Chorus)
You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give
You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have
I give you thanks for receiving it's my privilege
And you owe me nothing in return

You can ask for space for yourself and only yourself and I'll grant it
You can ask for freedom as well or time to travel and you'll have it
You can ask to live by yourself or love someone else and I'll support it
You can ask for anything you want, anything at all and I'll understand it
(and there are no strings attached to it)

(Chorus)

I bet you're wondering when the next payback shoe will eventually drop
I bet you're wondering when my conditional police will force you to cough up
I bet you're wondering how far you have now danced you way back into debt
This is the only kind of love as I understand it that there really is

You can express your deepest of truths even if it means I'll lose you and I'll hear it
You can fall into the abyss on your way to your bliss I'll empathize with
You can say that you have to skip town to chase your passion and I'll hear it
You can even hit rock bottom have a mid-life crisis and I'll hold it
(and there are no strings attached to it)

(Chorus)

(2002)

1991 – Alanis
1992 – Now Is The Time
1995 – Jagged Little Pill
1998 – Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
1999 – Unplugged
2002 – Under Rug Swept
2002 – Feast On Scraps
2004 – So-Called Chaos
2005 – Jagged Little Pill Acoustic

Melissa Etheridge - Mama I'm Strange

2007-03-01T14:34:00.000-08:00

Melissa Etheridge
Mama I'm Strange
(click to download)

What's this little lie they keep on telling me

It's just another high, they keep on selling me

I was only five, they fed me so much jive

They said just have a ball, just be a Barbie doll

They churned and burned me out

Until they turned me out over and over again

(Chorus:)

Mama I'm strange

The thoughts and the wants are the locks on the back of my brain

I'm descending pretending I'm blending, I'm going insane

And they want me to change

Mama I'm strange

I'm on a shaky wall, I'm tripping down the hall

And all the king's men can't, can't sew me up again

I've got a leaky head, don't know the full extent

I'm drowning in my bed, I'm just an accident

They chewed and blew me out

Until they threw me out over and over again

(Chorus)

If I could tranquilize I might just vaporize

They couldn't supervise, they couldn't criticize

I have no evidence, I have no reverence

It makes no difference, I have no innocence

(Chorus)

Help me mama help me now

Mama I’m strange

Mama I’m strange

(1999)

1988 – Melissa Etheridge
1989 – Brave And Crazy
1992 – Never Enough
1993 – Yes I Am
1995 – Your Little Secret
1999 – Breakdown
2001 – Skin
2004 – Lucky
2005 – Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled

Indigo Girls - Rockin' In The Free World

2007-02-23T15:02:00.000-08:00

Indigo Girls

Rockin' In The Free World
(click to download)

There's colors on the street

Red white and blue

People shuffling their feet

People sleeping in their shoes

There's a warning sign on the road ahead

There's a lot of people saying we'd be better off dead

Don't feel like Satan but I am to them

So I try to forget it any way I can

Keep on rockin' in the free world

I see a woman in the night

With a baby in her hands

Under an old street light

Next to a garbage can

And she puts the kid away 'cause she wants to get a hit

She hates her life and what she's done to it

One more kid that will never go to school

Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool

Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world

We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
A kinder gentler machine gun hand
We got department stores and toilet paper
Styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer
The man in power says to keep our hope alive
Fuel to burn, roads to drive
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world

(1995)

1987 – Strange Fire
1989 – Indigo Girls
1990 – Nomads Indians Saints
1991 – Back On The Bus, Y’all
1992 – Rites Of Passage
1994 – Swamp Ophelia
1995 – 1200 Curfews
1997 – Shaming Of The Sun
1999 – Come On Now Social
2002 – Become You
2004 – All That We Let In
2005 – Rarities
2006 – Despite Our Differences

Shawn Colvin - Viva Las Vegas

2007-02-22T14:40:00.000-08:00

Shawn Colvin
Viva Las Vegas
(click to download)

Bright light city gonna set my soul

Gonna set my soul on fire

Got a whole lot of money that's ready to burn

So get those stakes up higher

There's a thousand pretty women waitin' out there

And they're all livin' devil may care

And I'm just the devil with love to spare

Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas

How I wish that there were more

Than the twenty-four hours in the day

'Cause even if there were forty more

I wouldn't sleep a minute away

Oh, there's black jack and poker and the roulette wheel

A fortune won and lost on ev'ry deal

All you need's a strong heart and nerves of steel

Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas

Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashin'

And your one armbandits crashin'

All those hopes down the drain

Viva Las Vegas turnin' day into nighttime

Night into daytime

If you see it once

You'll never be the same again

I'm gonna keep on

I'm gonna keep on the run

If it costs me my very last dime

If I wind up broke up well

I'll always remember that I had a swingin' time

I'm gonna give it ev'rything I've got

Lady luck please let the dice stay hot

Let me shoot a seven with ev'ry shot

Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas

Viva, Viva, Viva, Viva Las Vegas

(1995)

1989- Steady On

1992 – Fat City

1994 – Cover Girl
1995 – Live ‘88
1996 – A Few Small Repairs

1998 – Holiday Songs And Lullabies
2001 – Whole New You
2006 – These Four Walls

Uncle Kracker - Follow Me

2007-01-29T14:59:00.000-08:00

Uncle Kracker
Follow Me
(click to download)

You don't know how you met me
You don't know why you can’t turn around and say good-bye
All you know is when I’m with you I make you free
And swim through your veins like a fish in the sea
I'm singing

(Chorus)
Follow me, everything is alright
I'll be the one to tuck you in at night
And if you want to leave I can guarantee
You won't find nobody else like me

I'm not worried 'bout the ring you wear
Cause as long as no one knows that nobody can care
Your feelin’ guilty and I'm well aware
But you don't look ashamed and baby I'm not scared I’m singing

(Chorus)

Won't give you money, I can't give you the sky
It better off if you don't ask why
I'm not the reason that you go astray
We'll be alright if you don't ask me to stay

(Chorus)

(2000)

2000 – Double Wide
2002 – No Stranger To Shame
2004 – Seventy Two And Sunny

Mark Knopfler - Speedway At Nazareth

2007-01-24T01:05:00.000-08:00

Mark Knopfler
Speedway At Nazareth
(click to download)

After two thousand came two thousand and one
To be the new champions we were there for to run
From springtime in Arizona 'til the fall in Monterey
And the raceways were the battlefields and we fought 'em all the way

Was at Phoenix in the morning I had a wake-up call
She went around without a warning put me in the wall
I drove Long Beach, California with three cracked vertebrae
And we went on to Indianapolis, Indiana in May

Well the Brickyard's there to crucify anyone who will not learn
I climbed a mountain to qualify I went flat through the turns
But I was down in the might-have-beens and an old pal good as died
And I sat down in Gasoline Alley and I cried

Well we were in at the kill again on the Milwaukee Mile
And in June up in Michigan we were robbed at Belle Isle
Then it was on to Portland, Oregon for the G.I. Joe
And I'd blown off almost everyone when my motor let go

New England, Ontario we died in the dirt
Those walls from mid-Ohio to Toronto they hurt
So we came to Road America where we burned up the lake
But at the speedway at Nazareth I made no mistake

(2000)

1983 – Local Hero
1984 – Cal
1984 – Comfort And Joy
1987 – The Princess Bride
1989 – Last Exit To Brooklyn
1996 – Golden Heart
1998 – Metroland
1998 – Wag The Dog
2000 – Sailing To Philadelphia
2001 – A Shot At Glory
2002 – The Ragpicker’s Dream
2004 – Shangri-La
2006 – All The Roadrunning
2006 – Real Live Roadrunning

Avril Lavigne - I Always Get What I Want

2007-01-19T13:02:00.000-08:00

Avril Lavigne
I Always Get What I Want
(click to download)

Every now and then we all want somethin'
Even if there's no way of gettin' it
If I stomp my feet quick that maybe be the way around it
Could I get myself around it

(Chorus)
Get me what I want
Everything I don't got
So give me what I want
Cause I'm a big shot

Don't wanna always have to be so nice
Don't wanna hear you say well that's just life
I'll drown you out when I open my mouth
And make my way around it
I always make my way around it

(Chorus)

So give me what I want
I always get what I want
You don't wanna see me when
I don't get what I want
It's not what you want

I'm not about to take no for answer
No, if I tell you I can't I'm still gonna go
I did it all by myself and I found
I found my way around it

(Chorus)

So give me what I want
I always get what I want
You don't wanna see me when
I don't get what I want
That's not what you want

It's not too lovely
It could start to get ugly
It really bugs me
If I don't get my way!

(Chorus)

So give me what I want
I always get what I want
You don't wanna see me when
I don't get what I want
It's not what you want
If I don't get what I want
It's not what you want

(2004)

2002 - Let Go
2004 - Under My Skin

Neil Young - Flags Of Freedom

2007-01-16T15:01:00.000-08:00

Neil Young
Flags Of Freedom
(click to download)

Today's the day our younger son is going off to war
Fightin' in the age old battle we've sometimes won before
Flags that line old main street are blowin' in the wind
These must be the flags of freedom flyin'

Church bells are ringin' as the families stand and wave
Some of them are cryin' but the soldiers look so brave
Lookin' straight ahead like they know just where they're goin'
Past the flags of freedom flyin'

Sister has her headphones on, she hears the music blasting
She sees her brother marchin' by, their bond is everlasting
Listening to Bob Dylan singin' in 1963
Watching the flags of freedom flyin'

She sees the president speakin' on a flat-screen TV
In the window of the old appliance store
She turns to see her brother again but he's already walkin' past
The flags of freedom flyin'

Have you seen the flags of freedom?
What color are they now?
Do you think that you believe in yours
More than they do theirs somehow?
When you see the flags of freedom flyin'

Today's the day our younger son is goin' off to war
Fightin' in the age old battle we've sometimes won before
Flags that line old main street are blowin' in the wind
These must be the flags of freedom flyin'

(2006)

1968 - Neil Young
1969 - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
1970 - After The Gold Rush
1972 - Harvest
1972 - Journey Through The Past
1973 - Time Fades Away
1974 - On The Beach
1975 - Tonight's The Night
1975 - Zuma
1976 - Long May You Run
1977 - American Stars 'n Bars
1978 - Comes A Time
1979 - Rust Never Sleeps
1979 - Live Rust
1980 - Hawks & Doves
1981 - Re-Ac-Tor
1982 - Trans
1983 - Everybody's Rockin'
1985 - Old Ways
1986 - Landing On Water
1987 - Life
1988 - This Note's For You
1989 - Freedom
1990 - Ragged Glory
1991 - Weld
1992 - Harvest Moon
1993 - Unplugged
1994 - Sleeps With Angel
1995 - Mirror Ball
1996 - Broken Arrow
1997 - Year Of The Horse
2000 - Silver & Gold
2000 - Road Rock
2002 - Are You Passionate?
2003 - Greendale
2005 - Prairie Wind
2006 - Living With War
2006 - Live At The Fillmore East (recorded 1970)

Jenny Owen Youngs - Fuck Was I

2007-01-13T13:53:00.000-08:00

Jenny Owen Youngs
Fuck Was I
(click to download)

Love grows in me like a tumor
Parasites bent on devouring its host
I'm developing my sense of humor
Till I can laugh at my heart between your teeth
Till I can laugh at my face beneath your feet

Skillet on the stove is such a temptation
Maybe I'll be the lucky one that doesn’t get burned
What the fuck was I thinking?

Love plows through me like a dozer
I've got more give than a bale of hay
And there's always a big mess left over
What did you do? What did you say?
What did you do and what did you say?

Skillet on the stove is such a temptation
Maybe I'll be the special one that doesn't get burned
What the fuck was I thinking?

Love tears me up like a demon
Opens the wounds and fills them with lead
And I'm having some trouble just breathing
If we weren’t such good friends I think that I'd hate you
If we weren't such good friends I'd wish you were dead

Skillet on the stove is such a temptation
Maybe I'll be the lucky one that doesn’t get burned
What the fuck was I thinking?

Oh it's so embarrasing
I'm this awkward and uncomprable thing
And I'm running out of places to hide

What the fuck was I thinking?

(2005)

2005 - Batten The Hatches

Shania Twain - She's Not Just A Pretty Face

2007-01-11T14:59:00.000-08:00

Shania Twain
She's Not Just A Pretty Face
(click to download)

She hosts a T.V. show, she rides the rodeo
She plays the bass in a band
She's an astronaut, a valet at the parking lot
A farmer working the land
She is a champion, she gets the gold
She's a ballerina, the star of the show

She's not just a pretty face
She's got everything it takes

She has a fashion line, a journalist for Time
Coaches a football team
She's a geologist, a romance novelist
She is a mother of three
She is a soldier, she is a wife
She is a surgeon, she'll save your life

She's not just a pretty face
She's got everything it takes
She's mother of the human race
She's not just a pretty face

She is your waitress, she is your judge
She is your teacher, she is every woman in the world

She flies an airplane, she drives a subway train
At night she pumps gasoline
She's on the council, she's on the board
She's a politician, she praises the Lord

She's not just a pretty face
She's got everything it takes
She's mother of the human race
She's not...

No, she's not just a pretty face
She's got everything it takes
She's not just a pretty face
She's got everything it takes
She's not just a pretty face

(2002)

1993 – Shania Twain
1995 – The Woman In Me
1997 – Come On Over
2002 – Up!

Frankie Laine - Rawhide

2007-01-07T14:07:00.000-08:00

Frankie Laine
Rawhide
(click to download)

Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Rawhide!
Hah! Hah!

Keep rollin', rollin', rollin'
Though the streams are swollen
Keep them dogies rollin', rawhide
Through rain and wind and weather
Hell bent for leather
Wishin' my gal was by my side
All the things I'm missin'
Good vittles, love, and kissin'
Are waiting at the end of my ride

(Chorus)
Move 'em out, head 'em up
Head 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em out, head 'em up
Rawhide
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in
Ride 'em in, cut 'em out
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in
Rawhide!
Hah! Hah!

Keep movin', movin', movin'
Though they're disapprovin'
Keep them dogies movin', rawhide
Don't try to understand 'em
Just rope an' throw an' brand 'em
Soon we'll be living high and wide
My heart's calculatin'
My true love will be waitin'
Waitin' at the end of my ride

(Chorus)

Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Hah!
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Hah!
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Rawhide
Hah!
Rawhide!

(1959)

Sonya Hunter - Expecting To Fly

2007-01-06T13:44:00.000-08:00

Sonya Hunter
Expecting To Fly
(click to download)

There you stood on the edge of your feather
Expecting to fly
While I laughed, I wondered whether
I could wave goodbye
Knowin' that you'd gone
By the summer it was healing
We had said goodbye
All the years we'd spent with feeling
Ended with a cry
Babe, ended with a cry
Babe, ended with a cry

I tried so hard to stand
But I stumbled and fell to the ground
So hard to laugh as I fumbled
And reached for the love I found
Knowin' it was gone
If I ever lived without you
Now you know I'd die
If I ever said I loved you
Now you know I'd try
Babe, now you know I'd try
Babe, now you know I'd try
Babe

(1999)

1992 - Favorite Short Stories
1993 - Geography
1995 - Peasant Pie
1995 - Finders, Keepers
1998 - Headlights & Other Constellations
2002 - Sun In Mind

Dixie Chicks - I Hope

2007-01-03T13:32:00.000-08:00

Dixie Chicks
I Hope
(click to download)

Sunday morning, I heard the preacher say
Thou shall not kill
I don't wanna hear nothing else about killing
And that it's God's will

'Cause our children are watching us
They put their trust in us
They're gonna be like us
So let's learn from our history
And do it differently

(Chorus)
I hope, for more love, more joy and laughter
I hope, we'll have more than we'll ever need
I hope, we'll have more happy ever after
I hope, we can all live more fearlessly
And we can lose all the pain and misery
I hope, I hope

Oh, Rosie, her man he gets too rough
All she can say is he's a good man
He don't mean no harm
He was just brought up that way

But our children are watching us
They put their trust in us
They're gonna be like us
It's okay for us to disagree
We can work it out lovingly

(Chorus)

There must be a way to change what's going on
No I don't have all the answers

(Chorus)

I hope
I hope
I hope

(2006)

Edie Brickell - What I Am

2006-12-26T15:46:00.000-08:00

Edie Brickell
What I Am
(click to download)

I'm not aware of too many things
I know what I know, if you know what I mean
Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box
Religion is the smile on a dog
I'm not aware of too many things
I know what I know, if you know what I mean, d-doo yeah

Choke me in the shallow waters
Before I get too deep

What I am is what I am
Are you what you are or what?
What I am is what I am
Are you what you are or

Oh, I'm not aware of too many things
I know what I know, if you know what I mean
Philosophy is a walk on the slippery rocks
Religion is a light in the fog
I'm not aware of too many things
I know what I know, if you know what I mean, d-doo yeah

Choke me in the shallow water
Before I get too deep

What I am is what I am
Are you what you are or what?
What I am is what I am
Are you what you are or what?
What I am is what I am
Are you what you are or what you are and
What I am is what I am
Are you what you are or what?

Choke me in the shallow water
Before I get too deep
Choke me in the shallow water
Before I get too deep

Don't let me get too deep
Don't let me get too deep
Don't let me get too deep
Don't let me get too deep

What I am is what I am
Are you what you are or what?
What I am is what I am
Are you what you are or what?
What I am is what I am
Are you what you are or what you are and
What I am is what I am
Are you what you are or what?

(1988)

1988 - Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars
1990 - Ghost Of A Dog
1994 - Picture Perfect Morning
2003 - Volcano
2006 - Stranger Things

Lambchop - The Book I Haven't Read

2006-12-24T13:56:00.000-08:00

Lambchop
The Book I Haven't Read
(click to download)

The crickets cry tonight
Here comes your girl
The showers fall tonight
It's a rainy world

The shivers on the spine
Could be what we had in mind
Remember all the times we said
We could be we should be in love

On a windy porch tonight
Here comes your girl
Beneath the dull porch light
Your thoughts will curl

Past the women and the men
To where the story ends
The voice from up above says
We could be we should be in love

My disgusting habits end
It's a crazy world
Neither real nor pretend
And there's your girl

My eyes fall from my head
With all the pages read
And I'm so glad you said
We could be we should be in love

(2006)

1994 – I Hope You’re Sitting Down/Jack’s Tulips
1996 – How I Quit Smoking
1997 – Thriller
1998 – What Another Man Spills
2000 – Nixon
2001 – Tools In The Dryer
2002 – Is A Woman
2004 – Aw Cmon
2004 - No You Cmon
2006 – The Decline Of Country And Western Civilization, Part 2
2006 - Damaged

Kinky Friedman - Asshole From El Paso

2006-12-23T13:42:00.000-08:00

Kinky Friedman
Asshole From El Paso
(click to download)

We don't have no lovin's in El Paso
We don't go to porno picture shows
We don't swap our wives with our neighbors
And we keep our kids away from Mexico.

(Chorus)
And I'm proud to be an asshole from El Paso
A place where sweet young virgins are deflowered
You walk down the street knee-deep in tacos, ta-ta-ta-tacos
And the wetbacks still get twenty cents an hour

We don't wipe our asses on Old Glory
God and Lone Star beer are things we trust
We keep our women virgins till they're married
So hosin' sheep is good enough for us

(Chorus)

(1992)

1973 – Sold American
1974 – Kinky Friedman
1976 – Lasso From El Paso
1983 – Under The Double Ego
1992 – Old Testaments & New Revelations
1995 – From One Good American To Another
2003 – Classic Snatches From Europe
2005 – Mayhem Aforethought
2005 – They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore

Scott McKenzie - San Francisco

2006-12-22T13:49:00.000-08:00

Scott McKenzie
San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)
(click to download)

If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there

For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair

All across the nation such a strange vibration
People in motion
There's a whole generation with a new explanation
People in motion, people in motion

For those who come to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there

If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there

(1967)

1967 - Voice Of Scott McKenzie

Joe Turley - You Make Me Believe

2006-12-15T14:13:00.000-08:00

Joe Turley
You Make Me Believe
(click to download)

A feast for the eyes you glorious creature
But it’s your heart, your greatest feature
You make me believe in God
You make me believe in God
You make me believe

The way you move is a revelation
It’s got to be divine inspiration
You make me believe in God
You make me believe in God
You make me believe
You make me believe

Talk about miracles, you’re all the proof I need
Your love is spiritual…makes me want to get down on my knees
Makes me want to get down, down on my knees
Talkin' about you, yeah

Here you are in all of your splendor
Kissing me with lips warm and tender
You make me believe in God
You make me believe in God
You make me believe
You make me believe

I believe, I believe, I believe
You make me believe in God
You make me believe in God
You make me believe

(2006, scheduled for release soon)

2000 - When The Jitterbug Bites
2006 - Over The Horizon

Dixie Chicks - Lubbock Or Leave It

2006-12-14T16:43:00.000-08:00

Dixie Chicks
Lubbock Or Leave It
(click to download)

Dust bowl, Bible belt, got more churches than trees
Raise me, praise me, couldn't save me, couldn't keep me on my knees
Oh boy, rave on down loop 289
That'll be the day you see me back in this fool's paradise

(Chorus)
Temptation's strong (Salvation's gone)
I'm on my way to hell's half acre
How will I ever
How will I ever
Get to heaven now

Throwing stones from the top of your rock thinking no one can see
The secrets you hide behind your southern hospitality
On the strip the kids get lit so they can have a real good time
Come Sunday they can just take their pick from the crucifix skyline

(Chorus)

International airport a quarter after nine
Paris Texas, Athens Georgia's not what I had in mind
As I'm getting out I laugh to myself 'cause this is the only place
Where as you're getting on the plane you see Buddy Holly's face

I hear they hate me now just like they hated you
Maybe when I'm dead and gone I'm gonna get a statue too

(Chorus)

(2006)

1990 – Thanks Heavens For Dale Evans
1992 – Little Ol’ Cowgirl
1993 – Shouldn’t A Told You That
1998 – Wide Open Spaces
1999 – Fly
2002 – Home
2003 – Top Of The World Tour: Live
2006 – Taking The Long Way

Mark Cutler - Wrecking Ball

2006-12-13T15:35:00.000-08:00

Mark Cutler
Wrecking Ball
(click to download)

Here comes the wrecking ball
All the bums running down the hall
Get out, get out, get out
The emperor would shout

When empires fade away
Everybody needs a place to stay
Get out, get out, get out
The wrecking ball's about to fall
So get out

It's time to go, so take it slow
This mustn't be the end

Get out, get out, get out

And so their paths did part

New adventures were bound to start
From coast to coast to coast
To your legend I give a toast
Get out, get out, get out of here
Some things you don't get near
So get out

Time passes slow, it's time to go
That was a lie

And so their paths did part
They both lost some of their beating hearts
And if I stumble and fall
It wasn't my choice to lose it all
Get out, get out, get out
You learn to do without
So get out
Get out, get out, get out

(2000)

1995 - Gasboy
1998 - Skylolo
2000 - Mark Cutler & Lexington 1-2-5

Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where The Time Goes

2006-12-12T15:09:00.000-08:00

Sandy Denny (1947-1978). In loving memory.

Fairport Convention
Who Knows Where The Time Goes
(click to download)

Across the purple sky, all the birds are leaving
But how can they know it's time for them to go?
Before the winter fire, I will still be dreaming
I have no thought of time

For who knows where the time goes?
Who knows where the time goes?

Sad, deserted shore, your fickle friends are leaving
Ah, but then you know it's time for them to go
But I will still be here, I have no thought of leaving
I do not count the time

For who knows where the time goes?
Who knows where the time goes?

And I am not alone while my love is near me

I know it will be so until it's time to go

So come the storms of winter and then the birds in spring again

I have no fear of time

For who knows how my love grows?

And who knows where the time goes?

(1969)

1968 - Fairport Convention
1969 - What We Did On Our Holidays
1969 - Unhalfbricking
1969 - Liege & Lief
1970 - Full House
1971 - Angel Delight
1971 - Babbacombe Lee
1973 - Rosie
1973 - Nine
1974 - Live Convention
1975 - Rising For The Moon
1976 - Gottle O Geer
1977 - Live At The L.A.Troubadour
1977 - The Bonny Bunch Of Roses
1978 - Tipplers Tales
1979 - Farewell, Farewell
1982 - Moat On The Ledge
1985 - Gladys' Leap
1986 - House Full
1986 - Expletive Delighted!
1987 - Heyday - BBC Radio Sessions 1968-69
1987 - In Real Time
1988 - Red & Gold
1990 - The Five Seasons
1992 - 25th Anniversary Concert
1994 - Jewel In The Crown
1996 - Old New Borrowed Blue
1998 - Who Knows Where The Time Goes?
1998 - The Cropredy Box
1999 - The Wood & The Wire
2001 - XXXV
2004 - Over The Next Hill
2006 - Off The Desk

Bif Naked - Lucky

2006-12-11T15:05:00.000-08:00

Bif Naked
Lucky
(click to download)

It was a monday when my lover told me
"Never pay the reaper with love only"
What could I say to you except "I love you"
And "I'd give my life for yours"

(Chorus)
I know we are...we are the lucky ones
I know we are...we are the lucky ones
I know we are...we are the lucky ones, dear

Remember the time we made love in the roses?
And you took my picture in all sorts of poses!
How could I ever get over you
When I'd give my life for yours

(Chorus)

My dear, it's time to say thank God for you
I thank God for you in each and every single way
And I know...I know...I know...I know...
It's time to let you know, time to let you know
Time to let you know, time to sit here and say

(Chorus)

(1998)

Beth Torbert aka Bif Naked

1995 – Bif Naked
1997 – Okenspay Ordway I
1998 – I Bificus
2001 – Purge
2005 – Superbeautifulmonster

Altan - Daily Growing

2006-12-10T13:15:00.000-08:00

Altan
Daily Growing
(click to download)

The trees, they grow high, and the leaves, they do grow green
Many is the time my true love I've seen
Many an hour I watched him all alone
He's young but he's daily growing

Father, dear father, you've done me great wrong
You have married me to a boy who is too young
I am twice twelve and he is but fourteen
He's young but he's daily growing

Daughter, dear daughter, I've done you no wrong
I have married you to a great lord's son
And he will be a man for you when I am dead and gone
He's young but he's daily growing

Father, dear father, if you see fit
We'll send him to college for another year yet
I'll tie a blue ribbon all around his head
To let the maidens know that he is married

One day I was looking over my father's castle wall

I spied all the boys playing with a ball

And my own true love, he was the flower of them all

He's young but he's daily growing

And so early in the morning at the dawning of the day

They went into a hayfield for to have some sport and play

And what they did there she never would declare

But she never more complained of his growing

At the age of fourteen he was a married man

At the age of fifteen, the father of my son

At the age of sixteen, his grave, it was green

And death had put an end to his growing

I'll buy my love some flannel, I'll make my love a shroud
And every stitch I put in it, the tears, they'll pour down
And every stitch I put in it, how the tears, they will flow

Cruel fate has put an end to his growing

(2002)

1987 - Altan
1989 - Horse With A Heart
1990 - The Red Crow
1991 - Harvest Storm
1993 - Island Angel
1996 - Blackwater
1997 - Runaway Sunday
2000 - Another Sky
2002 - The Blue Idol
2005 - The Local Ground

Smash Mouth - Hey L.A.

2006-12-09T13:11:00.000-08:00

Smash Mouth
Hey L.A.
(click to download)

There's an automatic teller machine in the emergency room
There's a meter maid she arrives by broom
There's a bear in the air with a lullaby
And a big brown coat to keep you warm at night
There's a money tree and the ladder leans up against the trunk
But the steps are greased

(Chorus)
Hey L.A.
Where you from
Where have you gone now
Well it looks like someone's spaceship crashed
In Babylon

There's a plastic man with a plastic knife
In a rubber hand at a drastic price
Don't miss this show you will be amazed
You're a shining star, a needle in the haze
There's a man upstairs with the fire below
There's the elevator and away you go

(Chorus)

There's a smooth operator
There's a famous Governator
Everybody walks in L.A.
On a backward escalator
It's a soul terminator
It's a sea of alligators
On each and every corner
There's a broken hearted waiter

(Chorus)

(2006)

1997 – Fush Yu Mang
1999 – Astro Lounge
2001 – Smash Mouth
2003 – Get The Picture?
2005 – The Gift Of Rock
2006 – Summer Girl

Doris Day - Que sera sera

2006-12-08T14:29:00.000-08:00

Doris Day
Que sera sera
(click to download)

When I was just a little girl
I asked my mother what will I be
Will I be pretty, will I be rich
Here's what she said to me

(Chorus)
Que sera sera,
Whatever will be will be
The future's not ours to see
Que sera sera
What will be will be

When I grew up and fell in love
I asked my sweetheart what lies ahead
Will we have rainbows, day after day
Here's what my sweetheart said

(Chorus)

Now I have children of my own
They ask their mother what will I be
Will I be handsome, will I be rich
I tell them tenderly

(Chorus)

(1956)

1949 – You Are My Thrill
1950 – Young Man With A Horn
1950 – Tea For Two
1951 – Lullaby Of Broadway
1951 – On Moonlight Bay
1951 – I’ll See You In My Dreams
1953 – By The Light Of The Silvery Moon
1953 – Calamity Jane
1954 – Young At Heart
1955 – Love Me Or Leave Me
1956 – Day By Day
1957 – The Pajama Game
1957 – Day By Night
1958 – Horray For Hollywood vol1 & 2
1959 – Cuttin’ Capers
1960 – What Every Girl Should Know
1960 – Show Time
1961 – Bright & Shiny
1961 – I Have Dreamed
1962 – Duet
1962 – You’ll Never Walk Alone
1962 – Billy Rose’s Jumbo
1963 – Annie Get Your Gun
1963 – Love Him
1964 – The Doris Day Chistmas Album
1964 – With A Smile And A Song
1965 – Latin For Lovers
1965 – Sentimental Journey
1994 – Love Album (recorded in 1967)

Led Zeppelin - Going To California

2006-12-07T15:31:00.000-08:00

Led Zeppelin
Going To California
(click to download)

Spent my days with a woman unkind
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine
Made up my mind to make a new start
Going To California with an aching in my heart

Someone told me there's a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair

Took my chances on a big jet plane
Never let them tell you that they're all the same
The sea was red and the sky was grey
Wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today
The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake
As the children of the sun began to awake

Seems that the wrath of the Gods
Got a punch on the nose and it started to flow
I think I might be sinking
Throw me a line if I reach it in time
I'll meet you up there where the path
Runs straight and high

To find a queen without a king
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings, la la la la
Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn
Tryin' to find a woman who's never, never, never been born
Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams
Telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems

(1971)

1969 - Led Zeppelin
1969 - II
1970 - III
1971 - IV
1973 - Houses Of The Holy
1975 - Physical Graffiti
1976 - Presence
1976 - The Song Remains The Same
1979 - In Through The Out Door
1982 - Coda
1997 - BBC Sessions
2003 - How The West Was Won

Lou Ann Barton - Te Ni Nee Ni Nu

2006-12-06T14:03:00.000-08:00

Lou Ann Barton
Te Ni Nee Ni Nu
(click to download)

I want you, to be my te ni nee ni nu
I want you, to be my te ni nee ni nu
Tell me the truth, are you my te ni nee ni nu?

Now will you love when you love me
Will you squeeze me, come on don't tease me
Tell me the truth, are you my te ni nee ni nu?

Come on baby, you show your show,
walk the dog boog-a-loo, you got to go
Everybody’s watchin' you, you lookin' good baby, and that’s the truth
Now when you're through, come be my te ni nee ni nu

(Chorus)

(1999)

Lou Ann Barton with Jimmie Vaughan

1982 – Old Enough
1986 – Forbidden Tones
1989– Read My Lips
1990 – Dreams Come Through
1999 – Sugar Coated Love
2001 – The Thunderbroad

Vast - Free

2006-12-05T17:21:00.000-08:00

VAST
Free
(click to download)

It's time to laugh, it's time to cry
It's time to be what you need to be
It won't be long 'til they are gone
And we can be what we want to be
I wanna run from everything
Everything that holds me down
Nothing to win, nothing to lose

(Chorus)
You can't tell me what to do anymore
You can't tell me what to do anymore
Now I'm free, now I'm free, now I'm free

I'm gonna run, I'm gonna win
I'm gonna do what I need to do
'cause it's time to be what I need to be
It's time to be what I need to be

(Chorus)

I want to hold air in my hand
Own the one thing you can't buy
Nothing to win, nothing to lose
It's time to be what I need to be
I'm gonna run from everything
Everything that holds me down
Nothing to win, nothing to lose
It's time to be what I need to be

(Chorus)

(2000)

Jon Crosby

1998 – Visual Audio Sensory Theater
2000 – Music For People
2004 – Nude
2006 – Turquoise & Crimson

Christina Rosenvinge - 36

2006-12-04T14:28:00.000-08:00

Christina Rosenvinge
36
(click to download)

And like any other monday
Promise of discipline
At the end of the day
There is always something new to fix

And my windows are open
But my closet's not clean
Every winter seems shorter
As I'm counting up to 36

See the steps in the ballroom?
I still doubt in between
Always late to all the parties
I had to learn some dirty tricks

And I'm not getting wiser
But I still fit in my jeans
Time is building me a room
That I still can't find at 36

Who's talking? Who listens?
Who is turning off?
Who's got it? Who missed it?
Who's still in love?

Someday back to me hometown
Nothing else to conceil
I will shake off my boots
Say that I was never 36

(2002)

1997 - Cerrado
1998 - Flores raras
2001 - Frozen Pool
2002 - Foreign Land
2006 - Continental 62

Alan Jackson - Like Red On A Rose

2006-12-03T14:29:00.000-08:00

Alan Jackson
Like Red On A Rose
(click to download)

Like red on a rose
When your lips first smiled at me
I was captured instantly
To each his own

Like blue in the sky
The gaze of your willing eyes
Touched something deep inside
The truth be known

That I love you like all little children love pennies
And I love you ‘cause I know that I can’t do anything wrong
You’re where I belong
Like red on a rose

And I love you like all little children love pennies
And I love you like good times of which I’ve known many
And I love you ‘cause I know you give me a heart of my own
You make my blood flow
Like red on a rose

(2006)

1990 - Here In The Real World
1991 - Don't Rock The Jukebox
1992 - A Lot About Livin' (And A Little 'Bout Love)
1993 - Honky Tonk Christmas
1994 - Who I Am
1996 - Everything I Love
1998 - High Mileage
1999 - Under The Influence
2000 - When Somebody Loves You
2002 - Drive
2002 - Let It Be Christmas
2004 - What I Do
2006 - Precious Memories
2006 - Like Red On A Rose

Susan Tedeschi - Tired Of My Tears

2006-12-02T13:22:00.000-08:00

Susan Tedeschi
Tired Of My Tears
(click to download)

Boy, you better go back in your mind
Try and find yourself a brand new life
I love you but you're toying with me
So if you can't change, go on, let me be

(Chorus)
Well, I'm sick of your lies (sick of your lies)
Tired of my tears (tired of my tears)
Boy, if you want me, better tell it like it is

Oh, when a girl meets a boy she likes she starts to dream
Before she knows it, she's caught buyin' his scheme
Now, I used to believe every word you say
But realize now, that was yesterday

(Chorus)

When I'm with you, I lose control
That's why I'm offering you my heart and soul
You better take it now 'cause when it's gone
I won't even answer my telephone

(Chorus)

(2005)

1997 – Better Days
1998 – Just Won’t Burn
2002 – Wait For Me
2004 – Live From Austin TX
2005 – Hope And Desire

Vertical Horizon - Best I Ever Had

2006-12-01T15:25:00.000-08:00

Vertical Horizon
Best I Ever Had (Grey Sky Morning)
(click to download)

So you sailed away into a grey sky morning
Now I'm here to stay, love can be so boring
Nothing's quite the same now,
I just say your name now

But it's not so bad
You're only the best I ever had
You don't want me back
You're just the best I ever had

So you stole my world, now I'm just a phony
Remembering the girl leaves me down and lonely
Send it in a letter
make yourself feel better

But it's not so bad
You're only the best I ever had
You don't need me back
You're just the best I ever had

And it may take some time to patch me up inside
But I can't take it so I run away and hide
And I may find in time that you were always right
You're always right

So you sailed away into a grey sky morning
Now I'm here to stay, love can be so boring
What was it you wanted
could it be I'm haunted

But it's not so bad
You're only the best I ever had
I don't want you back
You're just the best I ever had

The best I ever had
The best I ever

(1999)

1992 –There And Back Again
1995 – Running On Ice
1997 – Live Stages
1999 – Everything You Want
2003 - Go

Laura Cantrell - What You Said

2006-11-30T16:30:00.000-08:00

Laura Cantrell
What You Said
(click to download)

I've been thinking about you
About change, about life
It turned so strange, what you said
It turned so strange, what you said

Now I see you and now I don't
And now the word's caught in my throat
I can't reply to what you said
To what you said, what you said

(Chorus)
The moon in the sky
A perfect half, a perfect half
As long as the moon's forever changing
I'm forever loving you

Now you see me and now you don't
And now the word's caught in my throat
I can't reply to what you said
To what you said

(Chorus)

(2005)

2000 – Not The Tremblin’ Kind
2002 – When The Roses Bloom Again
2005 – Humming By The Flowered Vine

Josh Joplin - Camera One

2006-11-29T13:26:00.000-08:00

Josh Joplin
Camera One
(click to download)

The sandy haired son of Hollywood
Lost his faith in all that's good
Closed the curtain, unplugged the clock
Hung his clothes on the shower rod
But he never got undressed
And no, he never made a mess

(Chorus)
It's funny how life turns out
The odds of faith in the face of doubt
Camera One closes in
The soundtrack starts, the scene begins
You're playing you now, you're playing you now
You're playing you now, you're playing you now
You're playing you now
Take a bow, take a bow

The trophy wife from Palisades
Whose yearbook beauty never fades
Sits and watches the sea fold in
And wonders what might have been
If she could ever have the chance
Would she do it all again?

(Chorus)

On the corner by his streets
He sits in his lawnchair in the heat
Sightseers see what they want

They're selling star-maps to the sun

The sunny-haired son of Hollywood
Lost his faith in all that's good
Closed the curtain, unplugged the clock
Hung his clothes on the shower rod
But he didn't get undressed
And no, he didn't seem depressed

(Chorus)

(2000)

2000 - Useful Music
2002 - The Future That Was
2005 - Jaywalker

Sandra McCracken - Head Over Heel

2006-11-28T17:10:00.000-08:00

Sandra McCracken
Head Over Heel
(click to download)

I paint by number, you paint with stars and signs
Oh but I can’t explain how your melody comes alive
You move me like a wheel
Just one motion sends me reeling

(Chorus)
I don’t know what it is in your invitation
I don’t know how you turn me inside out
I don’t know what it is you lift me off the ground
Head over heel, head over heel

I got the radio playing, my head is full of your words
Don’t know a thing about you except what I have heard
Oh you resonate like a shotgun
Through my walls and rooms you are going gone

(Chorus)

In the beginning there was sound
Drink from the well that won’t run out
And here I’m lost and found

(Chorus)

Through my walls you are going, going gone

(2006)

2000 - The Crucible
2001 - Gypsy Flat Road
2004 - Best Laid Plans
2005 - The Builder And The Architect
2006 - Gravity/Love

Ani Di Franco - Studying Stones

2006-11-27T13:37:00.000-08:00

Ani Di Franco
Studying Stones
(click to download)

I am out here studying stones
Trying to learn to be less alive
Using all of my will to keep very still
Still even on the inside
I've cut all of the pertinent wires
So my eyes can't make that connection
I am holding my breath, I am feigning my death
When I'm looking in your direction

(Chorus)
'Course numb is an old hat
Old as my oldest memories
See that one's my mother
And that one's my father
And that one in the hat, that's me
It's a skill I'd hoped to abandon
When I got out on the open road
But any more pent up emotion
And I think I'm gonna explode

There's never been an endeavor so strange
As trying to slow the blood in my veins
To keep my face blank as a stone that just sank
Until not a ripple remains
I am high above the tree line
Sitting cross legged on the ground
When all of the forbidden fruit has fallen and rotted
That's when I'm gonna come down

(Chorus)

(2005)

1990 - Ani Di Franco
1991 - Not So Soft
1992 - Imperfectly
1993 - Puddle Dive
1993 - Like I Said: Songs 1990-1991
1994 - Out Of Range
1995 - Not A Pretty Girl
1996 - Dilate
1997 - Living In Clip
1998 - Little Plastic Castle
1999 - Up Up Up Up Up Up
1999 - To The Teeth
2001 - Revelling/Reckoning
2002 - So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter
2003 - Evolve
2004 - Educated Guess
2005 - Knuckle Down
2006 - Reprieve

Dean Martin - Rio Bravo

2006-11-25T14:11:00.000-08:00

Dean Martin
Rio Bravo
(click to download)

By the river Rio Bravo
I walk all alone
And I wonder as I wander by the river
Where my love has flown

All the birds in the cottonwoods above her
Know I love her, know I care
But my dreams, like the songs she sang in Spanish
Seem to vanish in the air
I wonder where

So I wonder as I wander
Will love come along
Must I live ever after
By the memory of her song
While the river Rio Bravo flows along
( Rio Bravo, Rio Bravo)
While the river Rio Bravo flows along

(1959)

1953 – Dean Martin Sings
1955 – Dean Martin
1955 – Swingin’ Down Yonder
1957 – Pretty Baby
1959 – Sleep Warm
1959 – A Winter Romance
1960 – This Time I’m Swingin’!
1961 – Dean Martin
1962 – French Style
1962 – Dino! Italian Love Songs
1962 – Cha Cha de Amor
1963 – Dean “Tex” Martin Rides Again
1963 – Dino Latino
1963 – Country Style
1964 – The Door Is Still Open To My Heart
1964 – Live At The Sands Hotel
1964 – Everybody Loves Somebody
1964 – Dream With Dean
1965 – (Remember Me) I’m The One Who Loves You
1965 - Houston
1965 – Dean Martin Hits Again
1965 – Holiday Cheer
1966 – Songs From The Silencers
1966 – Christmas Album
1966 – The Dean Martin TV Show
1966 – Somewhere There’s Someone
1966 – The Hit Sound Of Dean Martin
1967 – Happiness Is Dean Martin
1967 – Welcome To My World
1968 – Gentle On My Mind
1969 – I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am
1970 – My Woman, My Woman, My Wife
1971 – For The Good Times
1972 – Dino
1973 – Sittin’ On Top Of The World
1973 – You’re The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me
1978 – Once In A While

Natacha Atlas - Mish Fadilak

2006-11-24T15:56:00.000-08:00

Natacha Atlas
Mish Fadilak
(click to download)

ya habibi ana mosh fadiya lak, wo la fadiya li l gharam
hafdo badin a'gui lek, ana lly mak kallam

khalina baid choway
yemkin enssa l'assiya
khalina, khalina, khalina
yemkin enssa l'assiya
denta lli amelta fiy, ya habibi kan ketir

ya habibi ah ah
ya habibi ah ah
ya habibi ah ah ah ah ah aaah...

law geey tahayerni
ibaad, ibaad any
mosh aweza houbek!
enssa hawak liya, dana chouft bianiya
el ghadr min albek!

law law law geey tahayerni
ibaad, ibaad any
mosh aweza liya, dana chouft bianiya
el ghadr min albek

khalina baid choway
yemkin enssa l'assiya
khalina, khalina
yemkin enssa l'assiya
denta lli amelta fiy, ya habibi kan ketir

ya habibi ah ah
ya habibi ah ah
ya habibi ah ah ah ah ah aaah...

bilach tikadebni
law marra sadani
inta tahiit!
sadani habibi, ya adri wo nassibi
inta tnassiit!

ya habibi ah ah
ya habibi ah ah
ya habibi ah ah ah ah ah aah...

(2001)

1995 – Diaspora
1997 – Halim
1998 – Gedida
2001 – Ayeshteni
2002 – Foretold In The Language Of Dreams
2003 – Something Dangerous
2006 – Mish Maoul

Freakwater - Good For Nothing

2006-11-22T13:16:00.000-08:00

Freakwater
Good For Nothing
(click to download)

(Chorus)
I've been good and I've been good for nothing
I had it bad for something seems like a long time ago
And the dirt beneath my nails is not from some field of flowers
Sown by the April showers and what they may or may not bring
I always get lucky in the spring
I have been good for nothing

Loose lips are bound to sink ships
And many times I've watched my own self drown
Clinging fast to my lucidity
Like a life raft that's slowly sinking down

One big drink and then another
Pull my head down far beneath the waves
Where I'm living like a mermaid decked in stolen jewels
From the drowning men I've saved

(Chorus)

Black crows break and scatter wide
The buckshot blast soaring out of sight
Clouds of heat and dust that rise up from the ground
On a slow and gasping flight

I'm bound to think about my brother
When August sucks the colors from the air
And Kudzu vines make tangled monsters
Of the trees where we first learned to play fair

Forgive and forget are words that never slid across my tongue
Revenge like a fleeting Christmas morning I knew when I was young
Put the toys back in their boxes
Let me tear the ribbons off them just once more
Inside my little box of bones a ray of light shines
Where I'm slowly keeping score

(Chorus)

(1999)

Catherine Irwin & Janet Bean

1989 - Freakwater
1991 – Dancing Under Water
1993 – Feels Like The Third Time
1995 – June 6, 1994
1995 – Old Paint
1998 – Springtime
1999 – End Time
2005 – Thinking Of You

Boo Hewerdine - The Birds Are Leaving

2006-11-19T13:18:00.000-08:00

Sunset just outside San Diego
(photo by Suzay Lamb)

Boo Hewerdine
The Birds Are Leaving
(click to download)

Spinning further from the sun
Here's October in our lungs
Come outside up in the sky
The birds are leaving

Clouds of instinct fill the air
And whatever brought us here
Come next year will bring again
The birds are leaving

Tell me that a lover's touch
Is more than nature planting seeds
Or what am I to believe?

South of here the winter's kinder
So they leave to find fair weather
And how high our spirits rise
On their returning

Tell me that a lover's touch
Is more than nature passing genes
Or what am I to believe?

Heaven knows why you're not happy
And heaven knows why I can't make you
Look outside up in the sky
The birds are leaving
The birds are leaving

(1999)

Santa Cruz, the lighthouse
(photo by Suzay Lamb)

1989 - Evidence
1996 - Ignorance
1996 - Baptist Hospital
1999 - Thanksgiving
2002 - Anon
2005 - Harmonograph

Sundays - Wild Horses

2006-11-18T13:08:00.000-08:00

Sundays
Wild Horses
(click to download)

Childhood living is easy to do
The things that you wanted I bought them for you
Graceless lady, you know who I am
You know I can't let you slide through my hands

Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild horses couldn't drag me away

I watched you suffer a dull aching pain
Now you decided to show me the same
No sweeping exits or off-stage lines
Can make me feel bitter or treat you unkind

Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild horses couldn't drag me away

I know I dreamed you a sin and a lie
I have my freedom but I don't have much time
Faith has been broken and tears must be cried
Let's do some living after we die

Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses couldn't drag me away

Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them someday
Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them someday

(1992)

Harriet Wheeler

1990 – Reading, Writing And Arithmetic
1992 – Blind
1997 – Static And Silence

Michael Penn - Walter Reed

2006-11-17T16:51:00.000-08:00

Michael Penn
Walter Reed
(click to download)

I count the cases piled up high
For the 1:15.
For platform and for passerby
It's the same routine.
I'm ranting while I’m raving,
There's nothing here worth saving.

(Chorus:)

Tell me now, what more do you need?
Take me to Walter Reed tonight.
Baby I've lost the will for fighting
Over everything.
Well there's a few things I gotta say
And make no mistake, I'm mad
'Cause every good thing I've had
Abandoned me.

All I want to do is hide.
It's graduation day
And everything I learned inside
Didn't seem to pay.
I've had my fill of palm trees
And lighting up Grauman's Chinese.

(Chorus)

A sad and lonesome me.

I'm the walking wounded
And I'd say it to your face
But I can't find my place.

(Chorus)

A sad and lonesome me.
A sad and lonesome me.
A sad and lonesome me.

(2005)

Michael Penn in Los Angeles

1989 – March
1992 – Free-for-All
1997 – Resigned
2000 – MP4: Days Since A Lost Time Accident
2005 – Mr.Hollywood jr., 1947

Azure Ray - If You Fall

2006-11-16T13:58:00.000-08:00

Azure Ray
If You Fall
(click to download)

Let's talk and we'll fill the air
With imagery that lasts forever
So this is love, that's a lovely thought
You have to care for it to keep it together

(Chorus:)
If you fall will you get up
You're stuck in a dream will you wake up
And if you fell in love will you hold on to it
And if it's cold will you stay warm
You drift too far will you swim towards the shore
And if you fell in love will you hold on to it

Let's just sing and we'll fill the air
With melodies that blend together
You speak so sweet with words so delicate
A glass I hope will never shatter

(Chorus)

(2003)

Maria Taylor & Orenda Fink

2001 – Azure Ray
2002 – November (EP)
2002 – Burn & Shiver
2003 – Hold On Love

Richard Shindell - Are You Happy?

2006-11-15T15:00:00.000-08:00

Richard Shindell
Are You Happy?
(click to download)

You took the toaster when you went, you never paid your half the rent
You took the spices from the rack but you don't have to put 'em back
Cause in your haste on Halloween you left your camera on the bed
Where we played roles in black and white you left a roll of black and white
I set the timer thought of you put the lens up to my head
I took a photograph for you, what comes out gray is really red
So are you happy now? Are you happy now? Are you happy now?

I smashed your pumpkin on the floor, the candle flickered at my feet
As goblins flew across the room, the children peered into the room
A cowboy shivered on the porch, Cinderella checked her watch
A hobo waited in the street, an angel whispered trick or treat
What was I supposed to do but to sit there in the dark
I was amazed to think that you would take the candy with you too
So are you happy now? Are you happy now? Are you happy now?

I've sat all night and now it's dawn and I cannot believe my eyes
There's garbage strewn across the lawn where we once stared up at the sky
And streams of paper fill the tree that hovered over you and me
And shaving cream covers the car that we picked up in Baltimore
And though I know it's hard to tell I hope that what's his name treats you well
I still maintain that he's a bum but it's your money, have some fun
So are you happy now? Are you happy now? Are you happy now?

You always asked why I had not written you a verse or two
Since that's the one thing I regret I dedicate this one to you
So are you happy now? Are you happy now? Are you happy now? Are you?

(2002)

1992 – Sparrows Point
1994 – Blue Divide
1997 – Reunion Hill
1998 – Cry Cry Cry
2000 – Somewhere Near Paterson
2002 – Courier
2004 - Vuelta

Yo La Tengo - Sugarcube

2006-11-14T14:57:00.000-08:00

Yo La Tengo
Sugarcube
(click to download)

Whatever you want from me, whatever you want I'll do
Try to squeeze a drop of blood from a sugarcube

Try to be more assured, try to be more right there
Try to be less uptight, try to be more aware

Whatever you want from me, is what I want to do for you
Sweeter than a drop of blood from a sugarcube

And though I like to act the part of being tough
I crumble like a sugarcube for you

Whatever you want from me, whatever you want I'll do
I will try

(2005)

1986 – Ride The Tiger
1987 – New Wave Hot Dogs
1989 – President Yo La Tengo
1990 – Fakebook
1992 – May I Sing With Me
1993 – Painful
1995 – Electr-O-Pura
1996 – Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo
1997 – I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
2000 – And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
2002 – The Sounds Of The Sounds Of Science
2003 – Summer Sun
2006 – I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass

Kathleen Edwards - In State

2006-11-13T13:49:00.000-08:00

Kathleen Edwards
In State
(click to download)

I can spot your kind a million miles away
Buckle down boots and a bloodshot gaze
You talk so sweet until the going gets tough
The last job you pulled was never big enough

Don't say you'll change after the next time
You wouldn't even be yourself if you weren't telling a lie

Cuz I know where the cops hang out
I know where you'll be found
I know what you're all about
I know when you're going down

You only call me honey when we're alone
Hiding at your place up on slack road
You've got an answer for every little thing
You can't even tell me where you've been

My face couldn't make you leave it behind

Maybe 20 years in state will change your mind

Cuz I know where the cops hang out
I know where you'll be found
I know what you're all about
I know when you're going down

Don't say you'll change after the next time
You wouldn't even be yourself if you weren't telling a lie
Maybe 20 years in state will change your mind

Cuz I know where the cops hang out
I know where you'll be found
I know what you're all about
I know you'll never change now

I know my love was good enough
I know you would have shed my blood
I know you can't shut me up
I know when you're going down

(2005)

2003 - Failer
2005 - Back To Me

Rolling Stones - Streets Of Love

2006-11-12T13:44:00.000-08:00

Rolling Stones
Streets Of Love
(click to download)

You're awful bright, you're awful smart
I must admit you broke my heart
The awful truth is really sad
I must admit I was awful bad

While lovers laugh and music plays

I stumble by and I hide my pain
The lamps are lit the moon is gone
I think I've crossed the Rubicon

And I, I, I, I, I, I, I
Walked the streets of love
And they're full of tears
And I, I, I, I, I, I, I
Walked the streets of love
And they are full of fears

While music pumps from passing cars
A couple watched me from a bar
A band just played the wedding march
And the cornerstore mends broken hearts
A woman asked me for a dance
Oh, It's free of charge just one more chance

Oh I, I, I, I, I, I, I
Walked the streets of love
And they are full of tears
And I, I, I, I, I, I, I
Walked the streets of love
For a thousand years

I walked the streets of love
And they’re drenched with tears

You had the moves, you had the cards
I must admit you were awful smart
The awful truth is awful sad
I must admit I was awful bad

And I, I, I, I, I, I, I
I walked the streets of love
And they're drenched with tears
And I, I, I, I, I, I, I
Walked the streets of love
For a thousand years

(2005)

1964 – The Rolling Stones
1964 – 12x5
1965 – Rolling Stones No.2
1965 – Now!
1965 – Out Of Our Heads
1965 – December’s Children (And Everybody’s)
1966 – Aftermath
1966 – Got Live If You Want It!
1967 – Between The Buttons
1967 – Flowers
1967 – Their Satanic Majesties Request
1968 – Beggars Banquet
1969 – Let It Bleed
1970 – Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out!
1971 – Sticky Fingers
1972 – Exile On Main Street
1973 – Goats Head Soup
1974 – It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll
1975 – Black And Blue
1977 – Love You Live
1978 – Some Girls
1980 – Emotional Rescue
1981 – Tattoo You
1982 – Still Life
1983 – Undercover
1986 – Dirty Work
1989 – Steel Wheels
1991 – Flashpoint
1994 – Voodoo Lounge
1995 – Stripped
1997 – Bridges To Babylon
2004 – Live Licks
2005 – A Bigger Bang

Rosanne Cash - Dance With The Tiger

2006-11-11T13:21:00.000-08:00

Rosanne Cash
Dance With The Tiger
(click to download)

In every woman and man lies the seed of the fear
Of just how alone are all who live here
Denying the fear is the name of the game
To stare at the fear is going insane
Forgiving the fear is one up on Cane
Is to dance with the tiger
And laugh at the rain

Don't give me your life, I have one of my own
It was a brilliant idea inventing the home
Creatures of habit, American fools
Reaching for stars while we're standing on stools
Letting it go is jumping the train
Is to dance with the tiger
Letting it go though we won't be the same
Is to dance with the tiger
Letting it go is the name of the game
Is to dance with the tiger
And laugh at the rain

(1990)

1978 – Rosanne Cash
1979 – Right Or Wrong
1981 – Seven Year Ache
1982 – Somewhere In The Stars
1985 – Rhythm & Romance
1987 – King’s Record Shop
1990 – Interiors
1993 – The Wheel
1996 – 10 Song Demo
2003 – Rules Of Travel
2006 – Black Cadillac

Pearl Jam & Neil Young - I Got Id

2006-11-10T13:36:00.000-08:00

Pearl Jam & Neil Young
I Got Id
(click to download)

My lips are shaking, my nails are bit off.
Been a month since I've heard myself talk.
All the advantage this life's got on me.
Picture a coffin in the middle of the sea.

And I fight back in my mind. Never lets me be right.
I got memories. I got shit so much it don't show.

Oh, I walked the line when you held me in that night.
I walked the line when you held my hand that night.

An empty shell seems so easy to crack.
Got all these questions. Don't know who I could even ask.
So I'll just lie alone and wait for the dream
Where I'm not ugly and you're looking at me.

And I stay in bed. Oh, little I've seen there.
If just once I could feel love, oh, I'd say it like I mean it. Yeah.

But I walked the line when you held me in that night.
Oh, I walked the line when you held my hand that night.
Oh, I walked the line when you held me close that night.
I paid the price. Never held you in real life.

My lips are shaking...

(1995)

1991 – Ten
1993 – Vs.
1994 – Vitalogy
1996 – No Code
1998 – Yield
1998 – Live On Two Legs
2000 – Binaural
2002 – Riot Act
2006 – Pearl Jam

Audrey Hepburn - Moon River

2006-11-09T17:02:00.000-08:00

Audrey Hepburn
Moon River
(click to download)

Moon River, wider than a mile,
I'm crossing you in style some day.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
Wherever you're going I'm going your way.

Two drifters off to see the world.
There's such a lot of world to see.
We're after the same rainbow's end
Waiting 'round the bend,
My huckleberry friend,
Moon River and me.

(1961)

no one like her

Anneli Drecker & Gérard Depardieu - I'll Strangle You

2006-11-08T14:45:00.000-08:00

Anneli Drecker & Gérard Depardieu
I'll Strangle You
(click to download)

J'ai tendu des cordes de clocher à clocher
Des guirlandes de fenêtre à fenêtre
Des chaînes d'or d'étoile à étoile
Et je danse

Ah ah ah let me
Penetrate all of your memories
Oh yeah oh yeah
Ah ah let me be that
Woman who can bind you hand and foot
Oh Yeah Oh Yeah
I'll strangle you
I'll strangle you

Une matinée couverte en juillet
Un goût de cendres vole dans l'air
Une odeur de bois suant dans l'âtre
Les fleurs rouies
Le saccage des promenades
La bruine des canaux par les champs

I have strung ropes from steeple to steeple
Garlands from window to window
And golden chains from star to star…
And I dance

J'ai tendu des cordes de clocher à clocher
Des guirlandes de fenêtre à fenêtre
Des chaînes d'or d'étoile à étoile
Et je danse

Ah ah ah let me
Penetrate all of your memories
Oh yeah oh yeah
Ah ah let me be that
Woman who can bind you hand and foot
I'll strangle you
I'll strangle you

Avivant un agréable goût d'encre de chine
Une poudre noire pleut doucement sur ma veillée
Je baisse les feux du lustre
Je me jette sur le lit
Et tourné du côté de l'ombre
Je vous vois, mes filles!
Mes reines!

I have strung ropes from steeple to steeple
Garlands from window to window
And golden chains from star to star…
And I dance…

J'ai tendu des cordes de clocher à clocher
Des guirlandes de fenêtre à fenêtre
Des chaînes d'or d'étoile à étoile
Et je danse
Et je danse
Et je danse

I'll strangle you
I'll strangle you

(1992)

2000 – Tundra
2005 - Frolic

Maybe Baby - All The Time In The World

2006-11-07T14:06:00.000-08:00

Ray Kavanaugh & Jennifer Kimball
______________________

Maybe Baby
All The Time In The World
(click to download)

Whistles blow and bells will ring
It's only the swell of the sea
Fever and the bootleg flask
Took all of my brothers from me

From the old world ships brought the quarrymen
To carve columns with finnials, victors of war
The steam drill whines, your back is bent
You turn and smile at me

And suddenly I've got all the time, darling
All the time in the world
I've got all the time when you look my way
And we haven't said a word

The Union won the nine-hour day
Still we're chained to the company store
A pittance wage, not a minute free
For a girl on cannery row

Save Saturday, in the oil lamp glow
The dancing pavilion it sways
Your gaze meets mine, beneath spruce and pine
And we dance the night away

'cause I've got all the time, darling
All the time in the world
I've got all the time when you look my way
And we haven't said a word

It's a dry island where the boss is King
But the band makes it feel like home
Those Yankee tunes, they end at the end
But the Italians they made me fly
The Italians made me fly

Whistles blow and bells will ring
The foreman's out looking for me
A stolen hour, a stolen kiss
We were thieves in an endless robbery

(2002)

2002 - What Matters

Love Spit Love - How Soon Is Now

2006-11-06T15:47:00.000-08:00

Love Spit Love
How Soon Is Now
(click to download)

I am the son and the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and the heir
Of nothing in particular.

You shut your mouth
How can you say I go about things the wrong way
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does

There's a club if you’d like to go
You could meet someone who really loves you
So you go and you stand on your own and you leave on your own
And you go home and you cry and you want to die.

When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
See I've already waited too long
And all my hope is gone

(1996)

How Soon Is Now is Charmed theme song

1994 – Love Spit Love
1997 – Trysome Eatome

Evanescence - Call Me When You're Sober

2006-11-05T13:33:00.000-08:00

Evanescence
Call Me When You're Sober
(click to download)

Don't cry to me.
If you loved me,
You would be here with me.
You want me,
Come find me.
Make up your mind.

Should I let you fall?
Lose it all?
So maybe you can remember yourself.
Can't keep believing,
We're only deceiving ourselves.
And I'm sick of the lie,
And you're too late.

(Chorus)

Couldn't take the blame.
Sick with shame.
Must be exhausting to lose your own game.
Selfishly hated,
No wonder you're jaded.
You can't play the victim this time,
And you're too late.

(Chorus)

You never call me when you're sober.
You only want it cause it's over,
It's over.

How could I have burned paradise?
How could I - you were never mine.

So don't cry to me.
If you loved me,
You would be here with me.
Don't lie to me,
Just get your things.
I've made up your mind.

(2006)

2000 – Origin
2003 – Fallen
2004 – Anywhere But Home
2006 – The Open Door

Dwight Yoakam - Three Good Reasons

2006-11-04T13:33:00.000-08:00

Dwight Yoakam
Three Good Reasons
(click to download)

Well, I'll give you three good reasons for leavin'.
Number one is that I've forgotten number two.
Number three is in a place that's been kept hidden,
For so long I can't remember, but its true.

Then I'll give you three more reasons for leavin'.
Where the first no, weren't so bad as the next two.
But rest assured that the third will leave you grieving,
From a tale that's as sad as it is true.

Every night, all night long,
I sit and count alone.
But every day, nothin's new,
I can't find one and two.

But I'll give you three good reasons for leavin'.
Number one is that I've forgotten number two.
Yeah, number one is that I've forgotten number two.
Number one is that I've forgotten number two.

(2005)

1986 – Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc.Etc.
1987 – Hillbilly Deluxe
1988 – Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room
1990 – If There Was A Way
1993 – This Time
1995 – Dwight Live
1995 – Gone
1997 – Under The Covers
1997 – Come On Christmas
1998 – A Long Way Home
2000 – dwightyoakamacoustic.net
2000 – Tomorrow’s Sounds Today
2001 – South Of Heaven, West Of Hell
2003 – Population Me
2005 – Blame The Vain
2005 – Live From Austin, Tx

Beth Nielsen Chapman - World Of Hurt

2006-11-03T14:11:00.000-08:00

Beth Nielsen Chapman (with John Hiatt)
World Of Hurt
(click to download)

Day one God smiled
Gave us all the wisdom of a new born child
But by the time we take our first step
We've already begun to forget

What the heart knows the heart sees
We're just as much the forest as we are the trees
Every little seed trying to find
Where the light comes from

(Chorus):
It's a world of hurt, nothing works
It's a lonely little planet made of dust and dirt
Who'd ever thinks that in the midst of all this
Something as beautiful as love exists
Baby I hold you and you hold me
Heaven doesn't seem like such a mystery
In a world of hurt you make me feel so good

Day one of our love
Two heartbroken people scared to trust too much
Oh here it comes that feelin' again
That every lover swears will never end

We thought we'd been there, done that,
But when we've kissed,
We knew we'd never been here, we've never done this
All the walls come tumblin' down when you love someone

(chorus)

(2002)

1980 – Hearing It First
1990 – Beth Nielsen Chapman
1993 – You Hold The Key
1997 – Sand And Water
1999 – If I Could Only Stay Asleep
2002 – Deeper Still
2004 – Hymns
2005 – Look

Lorne Greene - Bonanza

2006-11-02T13:10:00.000-08:00

Lorne Greene
Bonanza
(click to download)

We chased lady luck till we finally struck - Bonanza
With a gun and a rope and a hatful of hope
We planted our family tree
We got ahold of a potful of gold - Bonanza
With a horse and a saddle and a rig full of cattle
How rich can a fella be?

On this land we put our brand, Cartwright is the name
Fortune smiled the day we filed the Ponderosa claim

Here in the west we're livin' in the best - Bonanza
If anyone fights any one of us
He's gonna fight with me

Hoss and Joe and Adam know every rock and pine
No one works, fights, or eats like those boys of mine

Here we stand in the middle of a grand - Bonanza
With a gun and a rope and a hatful of hope
We planted our family tree
We got ahold of a potful of gold - Bonanza
With a houseful of friends where the rainbow ends
How rich can a fella be?

On this land we put our brand, Cartwright is the name
Fortune smiled the day we filed the Ponderosa claim

Here in the west we're livin' in the best - Bonanza
With the friendliest, fightenist, lovingest band
That ever set foot in the promised land
And we're happier than them all
That's why we call it - Bonanza
Bonanza
Bonanza
Bonanza!

(1962)

1963 - Young At Heart
1964 - Welcome To The Ponderosa
1965 - The Man
1965 - Have A Happy Holiday
1965 - Lorne Greene's American West
1966 - Portrait Of The West

Mike Doughty - Looking At The World From The Bottom Of A Well

2006-11-01T14:17:00.000-08:00

Mike Doughty
Looking At The World From The Bottom Of A Well
(click to download)

That Cuban girl that brought me low
She had that skin so fine and red lips rose-like now
Her mouth was wide and sweet as well
And now relentless hours of dreaming up her smell

And I feel as if I am looking at the world from the bottom of a well...

Lonely
And the only way to beat it is to bat it down...

Oh all the days that I have run
I sought to lose that cloud that’s blacking out the sun
My train will come some one day soon
And when it comes I’ll ride it bound from night to noon

I feel as if I am looking at the world from the bottom of a well

Aimless days, uncool ways of decathecting
Painless phase, blacked out thoughts you be rejecting

Lonely
And the only way to beat it is to bat it down...

Well, let's get down to business now

I feel as if I am looking at the world from the bottom of a well...

Lonely
And the only way to beat it is to bat it down...

(2005)

2000 - Skittish
2002 - Smofe + Smang: Live In Minneapolis
2005 - Haughty Melodic

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Twisted

2006-10-31T15:04:00.000-08:00

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
Twisted
(click to download)

My analyst told me (what?)
That I was right out of my head
The way he described it (how?)
He said I'd be better dead than live
I didn't listen to his jive
I knew all along he was all wrong
And I knew that he thought (what?)
I was crazy but I'm not
0h no (on no?) (oh no?)

My analyst told me (what?)
That I was right out of my head
He said I'd need treatment (yeah?)
But I'm not that easily led
He said I was the type that was most inclined
When out of his sight to be out of my mind
And he thought I was nuts (nuts?)
No more ifs or ands or buts
Oh no (oh no?) (oh no?)

They say as a child I appeared a little bit wild with all my crazy ideas
But I knew what was happening, I knew I was a genius...
What's so strange when you know that you're a wizard at three
I knew that this was meant to be

But I heard little children were supposed to sleep tight
That's why I got into the vodka one night
My parents got frantic, didn't know what to do
But I saw some crazy scenes before I came to
Now do you think I was crazy?
I may have been only three but I was swingin'

They all laugh at angry young men
They all laugh at Edison and also at Einstein
So why should I feel sorry if they just couldn't understand
The reasoning and the logic that went on in my head
I had a brain, it was insane
Oh they used to laugh at me
When I refused to ride on all those double decker buses
All because there was no driver on the top
(no driver on the top? this chick is twisted. what's the matter with her?)
(she must be out of her head)

My analyst told me (what?)
That I was right out of my head
The way he described it (how?)
He said i'd be better dead than live
I didn't listen to his jive
I knew all along he was all wrong
And i knew that he thought (what?)
I was crazy but i'm not.
Oh no (oh no?) (oh no?)

My analyst told me (what?)
That i was right out of my head.
But i said, dear doctor, (yeah?)
I think that it's you instead.
cause I have got a thing that's unique and new.
It proves that I'll have the last laugh on you,
cause instead of one head (one head?)
I got two
And you know two heads are better than one.

(1959)

1957 – Sing A Song Of Basie
1958 – Sing Along With Basie
1958 – The Swingers!
1959 - Everybody's Boppin'
1960 – The Hottest New Group In Jazz
1960 – Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
1960 – Sing Ellington
1961 – The Way-Out Voices Of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross

Nick Cave - Where The Wild Roses Grow

2006-10-29T01:44:00.000-08:00

Artwork by Bill Strain

Nick Cave with Kylie Milogue
Where The Wild Roses Grow
(click to download)

They call me The Wild Rose
But my name is Elisa Day
Why they call me it I do not know
For my name is Elisa Day

From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one
As she stared in my eyes and smiled
For her lips were the colour of the roses
That grew down the river, all bloody and wild

When he knocked on my door and entered the room
My trembling subsided in his sure embrace
He would be my first man, and with a careful hand
He wiped at the tears that ran down my face

[CHORUS]

On the second day I brought her a flower
She was more beautiful than any woman I'd seen
I said, "Do you know where the wild roses grow
So sweet and scarlet and free?"

On the second day he came with a single red rose
He said: "Will you give me your loss and your sorrow?"
I nodded my head, as I lay on the bed
"If I show you the roses will you follow?"

[CHORUS]

On the third day he took me to the river
He showed me the roses and we kissed
And the last thing I heard was a muttered word
As he stood smiling above me with a rock in his fist

On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow
And she lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief
And I kissed her goodbye, said, "All beauty must die"
And I lent down and planted a rose between her teeth

[CHORUS]

(1996)

1984 - From Her To Eternity
1985 - The Firstborn Is Dead
1986 - Kicking Against The Pricks
1986 - Your Funeral...My Trial
1988 - Tender Prey
1990 - The Good Son
1992 - Henry's Dream
1993 - Live Seeds
1994 - Let Love In
1996 - Murder Ballads
1997 - The Boatman's Call
2001 - No More Shall We Part
2003 - Nocturama
2004 - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus

Innocence Mission - Tomorrow On The Runway

2006-10-28T14:24:00.000-07:00

Innocence Mission
Tomorrow On The Runway
(click to download)

Old days, don't come to find me,

the sun is just about to climb up over there.

'While my heart is sinking I do not want my voice

to go out into the air'.
Did you leave the darkness without me?
You're always miles ahead.
And you're standing in tomorrow on the runway.

Oh be the music in my head,
the air around my bed, oh be my rest.
Replace the small disgraces of
the times and places that I never really left.
Did you leave the darkness without me?
You're always miles ahead.
And you're standing in tomorrow on the runway.

Oh I want to fly, fly forward into the light,
be alive, to come alive,
on the leaf-bright Friday drive,
sudden horses at the red light,
turn around, see clearer ways to go now.

(Repeat 1st verse)

(2003)

Karen Peris
_________

1986 – Tending The Rose Garden
1989 – The Innocence Mission
1991 – Umbrella
1995 – Glow
1999 – Birds Of My Neighborhood
2000 – Christ Is My Hope
2001 – Small Planes
2003 – Befriended
2004 – Now The Day Is Over

Amy Rigby - Are We Ever Gonna Have Sex Again?

2006-10-26T13:23:00.000-07:00

Amy Rigby
Are We Ever Gonna Have Sex Again?
(click to download)

Life’s become a great big list
Of things to do and buy and fix
At night we pass out before ten
Are we ever gonna have sex again?

I looked for your id today
Seemed that id had gone away
Ain’t been used since who knows when
Are we ever gonna have sex again?

We used to be triple x rated
Look at us now, so domesticated
Don't you hate it?

What happened to babe and stud?
Too much KFC and Bud
I shout it out into the wind
Are we ever gonna have sex again?

Come here baby, scratch my itch
Or I’ll show you one mean ass bitch
I’m so tired of acting Zen
Are we ever gonna have sex again?

Screw making love
It’s way too ambitious
Let’s get down on the rug
After you finish the dishes

Not now hon, the eggs are frying
But you get extra points for trying
Maybe I can squeeze you in
Between the PTA and CNN
Are we ever gonna have sex again?
Don't make me go to other men
Are we ever gonna have sex again?

(2003)

1996 - Diary Of A Mod Housewife
1998 - Middlescence
2000 - The Sugar Tree
2003 - Til The Wheels Fall Off
2004 - Faulkner, Dylan, Heinz & Me
2005 - Little Fugitive

David Gilmour - On An Island

2006-10-25T15:36:00.000-07:00

David Gilmour with David Crosby & Graham Nash
On An Island
(click to download)

Remember that night, white steps in the moonlight
They walked here too through empty playground, this ghosts´ town
Children again, on rusting swings getting higher
Sharing a dream, on an island, it felt right

We lay side by side
Between the moon and the tide
Mapping the stars for a while

Let the night surround you
We´re halfway to the stars
Ebb and flow, let it go
Feel her warmth beside you

Remember that night, the warmth and the laughter
Candles burned though the church was deserted
At dawn we went down through empty streets to the harbor
Dreamers may leave, but they´re here ever after

Let the night surround you
We´re halfway to the stars
Ebb and flow, let it go
Feel her warmth beside you

(2006)

1978 - David Gilmour
1984 - About Face
2006 - On An Island

Dead Meadow - At Her Open Door

2006-10-24T15:15:00.000-07:00

Dead Meadow
At Her Open Door
(click to download)

From the heights of the town

her handmaids will announce

her undying presence

within her seven-pillared house

Gifts of gold lie undisturbed

at her open door

Give until nothing's left

then wish to give more

Her words ring out all too clearly

in your ears

Until all else disappears

in a never ending night

she shines like boundless light

Though she calls quietly

know she'll take it all

It's alright it's all I need

Heaven up above waiting all the time

for you to make the age old climb

but sliding down takes no time

Gifts of gold lie undisturbed

at her open door

Give until nothing's left

then wish to give more

Her words ring out all too clear

Hers is the love for which rivers flow

men fall from ladders to the ground below

(2005)

2000 - Dead Meadow
2001 - Howls From The Hills
2002 – Got Live If You Want It
2003 – Shivering King And Others
2005 - Feathers

Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35

2006-10-23T00:29:00.000-07:00

Bob Dylan
Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35
(click to download)

Well, they'll stone ya when you're trying to be so good,

They'll stone ya just a-like they said they would.

They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to go home.

Then they'll stone ya when you're there all alone.
But I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned.

Well, they'll stone ya when you're walkin' 'long the street.
They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to keep your seat.
They'll stone ya when you're walkin' on the floor.
They'll stone ya when you're walkin' to the door.
But I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned.

They'll stone ya when you're at the breakfast table.
They'll stone ya when you are young and able.
They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to make a buck.
They'll stone ya and then they'll say, "good luck."
Tell ya what, I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned.

Well, they'll stone you and say that it's the end.
Then they'll stone you and then they'll come back again.
They'll stone you when you're riding in your car.
They'll stone you when you're playing your guitar.
Yes, but I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned.

Well, they'll stone you when you walk all alone.
They'll stone you when you are walking home.
They'll stone you and then say you are brave.
They'll stone you when you are set down in your grave.
But I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned.

(1966)

1962 - Bob Dylan
1963 - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
1964 - The Times They Are A-Changin'
1964 - Another Side Of Bob Dylan
1965 - Bringing It All Back Home
1965 - Highway 61 Revisited
1966 - Blonde On Blonde
1967 - John Wesley Harding
1969 - Nashville Skyline
1970 - Self Portrait
1970 - New Morning
1973 - Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid
1973 - Dylan
1974 - Planet Waves
1974 - Before The Flood
1975 - Blood On The Tracks
1975 - The Basement Tapes
1976 - Desire
1976 - Hard Rain
1978 - Street Legal
1979 - At Budokan
1979 - Slow Train Coming
1980 - Saved
1981 - Shot Of Love
1983 - Infidels
1984 - Real Live
1985 - Empire Burlesque
1985 - Biograph
1986 - Knocked Out Loaded
1988 - Dylan & The Dead
1988 - Down In The Groove
1989 - Oh Mercy
1990 - Under The Red Sky
1991 - The Bootleg Series vol.1-3
1992 - Good As I Been To You
1993 - The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration
1993 - World Gone Wrong
1995 - MTV Unplugged
1997 - Time Out Of Mind
1998 - Live 1966
2001 - Love And Theft
2002 - Live 1975
2004 - Live 1964
2006 - Modern Times

Victoria Williams - You R Loved

2006-10-21T14:04:00.000-07:00

Victoria Williams
You R Loved
(click to download)

Man takes his cane to a waterfall
Has a vision, starts talking baby talk
Understood by a girl in Peru
We read about it in the daily news
Lines of poetry revealing mysteries
Still some can't swim

Jesus walked on the water
He turned the water into wine
He went down to the drunkards
To tell them everything is fine
You R loved, you R loved, you R really loved
You R loved, you R loved, you R really loved

I cannot decide who should die or live
I do my best to forgive
Falling backwards in the eventide
Listening at the riverside
Lines of poetry revealing mysteries
Still some can’t swim

(Chorus)

(1994)

1987 - Happy Come Home
1990 – Swing The Statue!
1994 – Loose
1995 – This Moment: In Toronto With The Loose Band
1998 – Musings Of A Creek Dipper
2000 – Water To Drink
2002 – Sings Some Ol’ Songs

Richard Thompson - I'll Tag Along

2006-10-19T13:58:00.000-07:00

Richard Thompson
I'll Tag Along
(click to download)

Don’t mind me, friend of a friend

Bent the key to my lost weekend

Don’t mind me, along for the ride

Diz the Gasman says it’s all right

I'll tag along
And get a taste of things
And flap my little wings
I'll tag along

You could be my kind of crowd

A little bit edgy, a little bit loud

I test the water, I feel the heat

Before I jump in with both feet

I’ll tag along

I’ll keep out of your hair

You’ll hardly know I’m there

I’ll tag along

Love those swirly whirly lights

Love that girl with the rips down her tights

Might have to hurl when the Molotov bites

I’ll tag Along

I didn’t do it, it wasn’t me

I was right at the back, invisible, see?

I’m 100 per cent, and that’s a fact

You can ask Diz , I’ll be right back

I’ll tag along

And get a taste of things

And flap my little wings

I’ll tag along

Light fantastic, pop a few

My brain’s elastic, appetite too

Cash or plastic? I’d kill for the loo

I’ll tag along

(2003)

1972 - Henry The Human Fly
1974 - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
1975 - Hokey Pokey
1975 - Pour Down Like Silver
1976 - (guitar, vocal)
1978 - First Light
1979 - Sunnyvista
1981 - Strict Tempo!
1982 - Shoot Out The Lights
1983 - Hand Of Kindness
1984 - Small Town Romance
1985 - Across A Crowded Room
1986 - Daring Adventures
1987 - Live, Love, Larf & Loaf
1988 - Amnesia
1990 - Invisible Means
1991 - Rumor And Sigh
1992 - Sweet Talker
1993 - Watching The Dark
1994 - Mirror Blue
1995 - Live At Crawley 1993
1996 - You? Me? Us?
1997 - Industry
1998 - The Bones Of All Men
1999 - Mock Tudor
2001 - Action Packed
2003 - The Old Kit Bag
2005 - Live From Austin, TX
2005 - Front Parlour Ballads
2006 - RT - The Life And Music Of Richard Thompson

Bonnie Raitt - God Was In The Water

2006-10-18T13:26:00.000-07:00

Bonnie Raitt
God Was In The Water
(click to download)

God was in the water that day

Pickin' through the roots and stones

Trippin' over sunken logs

Tryin' not to make his presence known

God was in the water that day

Wadin' in careful steps

Bubbles risin' from his feet

Comin' up from the muddy depths

Castin' out a line

Castin' out a line to the shadows

Castin' out a line but no one's biting

I am at my pitiful desk

Starin' at the colorless walls

Wishin' I was any place else

Down into a dream I fall

Sittin' in a tiny boat

Driftin' on the mindless sea

And if I disappear

At least I'm floating free

Castin' out a line

Castin' out a line to the darkness

Castin' out a line but no one's biting

God was in the air that day

Breathin' out a haunted breeze

Tryin' not to make a sound

Shufflin' through the dried up leaves

God was in the air that day

Circlin' like a drunken hawk

Sweepin' with a hungry eye

Over the ground I walk

Castin' out a line

Castin' out a line to the darkness

Castin' out a line but no one's biting

Castin' out a line

Castin' out a line to the shadows
Castin' out a line but no one's biting

(2005)

1971 - Bonnie Raitt
1972 - Give It Up
1973 - Takin' My Time
1974 - Streetlights
1975 - Home Plate
1977 - Sweet Forgiveness
1979 - The Glow
1982 - Green Light
1986 - Nine Lives
1989 - Nick Of Time
1991 - Luck Of The Draw
1994 - Longing In Their Hearts
1995 - Road Tested
1998 - Fundamental
2002 - Silver Lining
2005 - Souls Alike

Mazzy Star - Flowers In December

2006-10-09T13:17:00.000-07:00

Mazzy Star
Flowers In December

(click to download)

Before I let you down again

I just want to see you in your eyes

I would have taken everything out on you

I only thought you could understand

They say everyman goes blind in his heart

And they say everybody steals somebody’s heart away

And I got nothing more to say about it

Nothing more than you would me

Send me your flowers, of your december

Send me your dreams, of your candy wine

I got just one thing I can’t give you

Just one more thing of mine

They say everyman goes blind in his heart

They say everybody steals somebody’s heart away

And I’ve been wondering why you let me down

And I been taking it all for granted

(1996)

Hope Sandoval from East L.A.
____________________________

1990 - She Hangs Brightly
1993 - So Tonight That I Might See
1996 - Among My Swan

The Wreckers - Way Back Home

2006-10-02T13:21:00.000-07:00

The Wreckers
Way Back Home

(click to download)

Somewhere in the country there's a place

Where nobody knows your name

When I'm feeling lonely there's a train

That helps me run away

I know my mother she always told me

The road would get cold

I never listened, always forgettin'

The way back home

Somewhere in the city there's a face

That makes it hard to stay

He never listened to me when I'd say

That things would never change

(Chorus)

(2006)

Jessica Harp & Michelle Branch: The Wreckers
______________________________________

2006 - Stand Still Look Pretty

Van Morrison - Celtic New Year

2006-06-23T15:11:00.000-07:00

Van Morrison

Celtic New Year

If I don't see you through the week, see you through the window
See you next time that we're talking on the telephone
And if I don't see you in that Indian summer
Then I want to see you further on up the road

I said, oh won't you come back?
I have to see you my dear
Want you come back in the Celtic New Year?
In the Celtic New Year

If I don't see you when I'm going down Louisiana
If I don't see you when I'm down on Bourbon Street
If you don't see me when I'm singing Jack of Diamonds
If you don't see me when I'm on my lucky streak

Woa, I want you, want you to come on back
I've made it very clear
I want you to come back home in the Celtic New Year
Celtic New Year

If I don't see you when the bonfires are burning, burning
If I don't see you when we're singing the Gloriana tune
If I've got to see you when it's raining deep inside the forest
I got to see you at the waning of the moon

Said oh, won't you come on back?
Want you to be of good cheer
Come back home on the Celtic New Year

Celtic New Year, Celtic New Year
Celtic New Year
In the Celtic New Year
In the Celtic New Year

Bourbon Street, New Orleans
(photo by Jean-Guillaume Dumas)

1967 - Blowin' Your Mind
1968 - Astral Weeks
1970 - Moondance
1970 - His Band And The Street Choir
1971 - Tupelo Honey
1972 - Saint Dominic's Preview
1973 - Hard Nose The Highway
1974 - It's Too Late To Stop Now
1974 - Veedon Fleece
1977 - A Period Of Transition
1978 - Wavelength
1979 - Into The Music
1980 - Common One
1982 - Beautiful Vision
1983 - Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart
1985 - Live At The Grand Opera House Belfast
1985 - A Sense Of Wonder
1986 - No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
1987 - Poetic Champions Compose
1988 - Irish Heartbeat
1989 - Avalon Sunset
1990 - Enlightenment
1991 - Hymns To The Silence
1993 - Too Long In Exile
1994 - A Night In San Francisco
1995 - Days Like This
1996 - How Long Has This Been Going On
1996 - Tell Me Something
1997 - The Healing Game
1999 - Back On Top
2000 - The Skiffle Sessions: Live In Belfast 1998
2000 - You Win Again
2002 - Down The Road
2003 - What's Wrong With This Picture
2005 - Magic Time
2006 - Pay The Devil

Equation - Jack And Suzanne

2006-06-21T13:42:00.000-07:00

Equation

Jack And Suzanne

Jack and Suzanne where the Thames runs dry
Ran by the river and they failed to fly
He built her up but she saw right threw
And Suzanne pulled Jack down.

Condemned to four point nine
Down by the river where the Thames runs dry
She's a body snatcher, full of laughter
Suzanne pulled Jack down

Demolished Jack's defences
Electrified his senses
Intravenous, drop drip dry
The blind leading the blind

He said romantic bender
She said 'light ale contender'
Just to them a world-wide wonder
Suzanne ran Jack down

Since golden October became sombre November
Fate took hold, with one bold stroke
They always hoped for a year to remember
Since they left four seasons ago

So the cowboys rode to town
The cowboys pulled the ice rink down
Ruined the church and the Odeon
As Suzanne ran Jack Down

Demolished Jack's Defender
Wicked, prime offender
Him to her a money lender
Suzanne ran Jack down

Since golden October became sombre November
Fate took hold, with one bold stroke
They always hoped for a year to remember
Since they left four seasons ago

River Thames
________________

1996 - Return To Me
1998 - Hazy Daze
2000 - The Lucky Few
2002 - First Name Terms

Joe Ely & Bruce Springsteen - All Just To Get To You

2006-06-19T14:05:00.000-07:00

Joe Ely & Bruce Springsteen

All Just To Get To You
(click to download)

I have stumbled on the plains, staggered in the wind
Stood at a crossroad or two
Cried to a river, swept to the sea
All just to get to you

I have jumped a yellow cab, hopped a rusty freight
Sang till my lips turned blue
Flown a silver bird on the tops of the clouds
All just to get to you

CHORUS:
I ran too hard, I played too rough
I gave my love not near enough
I bled too red, I cried too blue
I beat my fist against the moon
All just to get to you

I have run from St. Paul to Wichita Falls
Called you from sunny Baton Rouge
I hocked everything from my watch to my ring
All just to get to you

(CHORUS)

From the California shore where the mighty ocean roars
To the lands of the Hopi and the Sioux
I walked the desert sands, crossed the Rio Grande
All just to get to you

I have stumbled on the plains, staggered in the wind
Stood at a crossroad or two
Cried to a river, swept to the sea
All just to get to you

(CHORUS)

All just to get to you
All just to get to you
All just to get to you

New Mexico sky (Photo by Suze Lamb)

1977 - Joe Ely
1978 - Honky Tonk Masquerade
1979 - Down On The Drag
1980 - Live Shots
1981 - Musta Notta Gotta Lotta
1984 - Hi-Res
1987 - Lord Of The Highway
1988 - Milkshakes & Malts
1988 - Dig All Night
1990 - Live At Liberty Lunch
1992 - Love & Danger
1995 - Letter To Laredo
1998 - Twistin' In The Wind
2000 - Live At Antone's
2003 - Streets Of Sin
2004 - Settle For Love

Beatles - When I'm Sixty-Four

2006-06-18T02:38:00.000-07:00

Beatles

When I'm Sixty-Four
(click to download)

When I get older losing my hair
Many years from now.
Will you still be sending me a Valentine.
Birthday greetings, bottle of wine
If I'd been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When i'm sixty-four

You'll be older too
And if you say the word
I could stay with you

I could be handy, mending a fuse
When your lights have gone
You can knit a sweater by the fireside
Sunday morning go for a ride
Doing the garden, digging the weeds
Who could ask for more
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four

Every summer we can rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight
If it's not too dear
We shall scrimp and save
Grandchildren on your knee
Vera, Chuck & Dave

Send me a postcard, drop me a line
Stating point of view
Indicate precisely what you mean to say
Yours sincerely wasting away
Give me your answer, fill in a form
Mine for evermore
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four

(Paul McCartney wrote When I'm Sixty-Four as a tribute
to his father. He wondered what it would be like to be 64.
Today he will know. Happy birthday, Paul!)

A cottage in the Isle of Wight.
Paul McCartney has three grandchildren, although none
bear the names of those in the song: Vera, Chuck and Dave
______________________

1963 - Please Please Me
1963 - With The Beatles
1964 - A Hard Day's Night
1964 - For Sale
1965 - Help!
1965 - Rubber Soul
1966 - Revolver
1967 - Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1967 - Magical Mystery Tour
1968 - The Beatles
1969 - Yellow Submarine
1969 - Abbey Road
1970 - Let It Be

Norah Jones - Come Away With Me

2006-06-15T16:32:00.000-07:00

Norah Jones

Come Away With Me
(click to download)

Come away with me in the night
Come away with me and I will write you a song

Come away with me on a bus
Come away where they can't tempt us with their lies

I want to walk with you on a cloudy day
In fields where the yellow grass grows knee-high
So won't you try to come

Come away with me and we'll kiss on a mountaintop
Come away with me and I'll never stop loving you

And I want to wake up with the rain falling on a tin roof
While I'm safe there in your arms
So all I ask is for you

To come away with me in the night
Come away with me

Autumn in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado
(Photo by Suze Lamb)

2001 - First Sessions
2002 - Come Away With Me
2004 - Feels Like Home

Mark Erelli - Compass & Companion

2006-06-13T14:54:00.000-07:00

Mark Erelli with Kelly Willis

Compass & Companion
(click to download)

Out here on this road just after midnight
Silver sickle rising in the east
I'm steady on the wheel but I know just how you feel
So just lean back and try to catch some sleep

CHORUS:
Go to sleep my darling
There's just a fingernail moon up above
Go to sleep my darling
Am I the one that you'll be dreaming of

To think of every backroad we have travelled
Of all the restless miles we have run
Should you chance to find a trace of a smile on my face
I'm just dreaming of the miles we've still come

(CHORUS)

To me you are a compass and companion
You follow me down every road I ride
Wherever I may roam I'm already home
As long as you are travelling by my side

(CHORUS)

Palm Drive

1999 - Mark Erelli
2001 - Compass & Companion
2004 - Hillbilly Pilgrim
2006 - Hope & Other Casualties

Diane Zeigler - Listen To The Timber Fall

2006-06-11T13:55:00.000-07:00

Diane Zeigler

Listen To The Timber Fall
(click to download)

I made it through the barbed wire
And over the stone wall
And I walked across the pasture
Into the woods in early fall
I came to watch the crow fly
And to hear the crickets call
But I listened to the timber fall

It happens every season
I cannot say I wasn't warned
And I suppose it's for good reason
The loggers come to keep us warm
And you know the winter's coming
When you hear that steady drumming
When you listen to the timber fall

I'll be broken and splintered
After fall's final bloom
So now I claim for the winter
What will carry me through

So I walked into the forest
Like I marched into a bloody war
I heard an unrelenting chorus
As I listened to the chain saws roar
And I could see the winter coming
As I heard that steady drumming
When I listened to the timber fall

Timber on Forest Road 207 (Photo by Tom Hooker)

1995 - Sting Of The Honeybee
2000 - These Are The Roots
2002 - Paintbrush
2004 - December In Vermont

John Hiatt - When My Love Crosses Over

2006-06-10T16:00:00.000-07:00

JOHN HIATT

When My Love Crosses Over
(click to download)

We made a pact lying there on our backs
Swearing to every star that the sky did hold
Promising our love was true, promising to see it through
Then we headed due Southwest across the Muscle Shoals

We slid down a riverbank in the pouring rain giving thanks
For the strength just to carry on through the fog and the cold
There at the water's edge she tugged my arm and I nodded my head
Just one more step and that river took a hold

When my love crosses over I'm coming over too
To cross that mighty river that's before us
To the new western world, mountains high and plain unfurled
Desert stretching out to touch the Californias

We said we'd never look back, we never have and that's a fact
That Mississippi washed us clean down to the bone
The journey's been long my friend, hell, you never know what state you're in
Yeah, but the unknown it's always the unknown

When my love crosses over I'm coming over too
To cross that mighty river that's before us
To the new western world, mountains high and plain unfurled
Desert stretching out to touch the Californias

I lost track of you a while but you were waiting for me with a smile
Made me feel like a little child with a brand new view
Let's do it all over babe, it'd just be another trip we made
When my love crosses over I'm coming too

Silverton Mountain, Colorado (Photo by Suze Lamb)

1974 - Hangin' Around The Observatory
1975 - Overcoats
1979 - Slug Line
1980 - Two Bit Monsters
1982 - All Of A Sudden
1983 - Riding With The King
1985 - Warming Up To The Ice Age
1987 - Bring The Family
1988 - Slow Turning
1990 - Stolen Moments
1993 - Perfectly Good Guitar
1994 - Hiatt Comes Alive At Budokan
1995 - Walk On
1997 - Little Head
2000 - Crossing Muddy Waters
2001 - The Tiki Bar Is Open
2003 - Beneath The Gruff Exterior
2005 - Master Of Disaster
2005 - Live From Austin TX