"standing on the corner
with a suitcase in my hand"
(nuff said)..this states in very few words, so many thoughts a listener will have. A perfect line to start a song!
"Sweet Jane"
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"Woke up on Monday and wrote you a love song, a love song
well the pen stopped and the paper flew out the window
and the notes rang down the road
I don't know where they'll go, get caught in the trees I suppose
ripped apart by the birds and the winter winds whisper good bye to your love..."
"Maybe On Monday" Calexico
WOW!
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"I was drivin’ home, early Sunday mornin’, through Bakersfield
listenin’ to gospel music on a colored radio station
and the preacher said,
you know, you’ll ALWAYS have the LORD by your side,
I was so pleased to be informed of this,
that I ran twenty red-lights in his honor,
(Thank you Jesus, thank you Lord)
I had arrangements to meet a girl, and I was kind of late...
I thought by the time I got there, she’d be off...
she’d be off with the Nearest truck driver she could find
much to my surprise, there she was, sittin’ in the corner,
little bleary, worse for wear and tear
was the girl... FAR away eyes
chorus
so if you’re dowwwn on your luck
and you can’t quite harmonize
find a girl, with faaar away eyes
and if you’re down right disgusted
and life ain’t worth a dang
get a girl, with faaar away eyes"
Well the preacher kept right on sayin’
that all I had to do
was send ten dollars to the Church of the Sacred Bleeding Heart of Jesus located somewhere in Los Angelis California
and next week they’d say my payer on the RAdio
and all my dreams would COME true
know next week
I got a praaayer
I got a Girrl…
You know what kind of eyes she got?
A Girrl, with far away eyes.
chorus
"Far Away Eyes" Rolling Stones
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"The Mona Lisa’s sister doesn’t smile
she tried to pose, but only
for a while
Leonardo sent her home
since then she has lived alone
with her few belongings
and a copy
of a painting of herself unhappy
she is going to burn it
when she’s ready
Chorus:
Get started...Start a fire
Get started...Start a fire
Marylin was lying all alone
with an empty bottle by the phone
Kennedy was not around
She was cold when she was found
but she’d gone were the
goddesses are sleeping
where the molten tougues
of flames are weeping
or when the angels
hearts are beating
chorus
Joan of Arc was burning at the stake
somebody had made a big mistake
She lit a cigarette
in an airport where you get
your fingers taken off
for smoking
meanwhile up the road a
factory is choking
the one’s who killed her
work there, I’m not joking
chorus...………
Graham Parker "Get Started, Start a Fire"
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"God never makes mistakes
he just makes _uck ups"
"_uck Up" Sarah Shook & The Disarmers"
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Just to wet your whistles again...
"Drinking water tonight because
I drank all the whiskey this mornin’"
Sarah Shook & The Disarmers "Dwight Yoakum"
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"Damn the lump in my throat
damn the hole in my coat
damn the rain that just won't quit
damn the sorry waste of it
Damn the truth, damn the lies
Damn the look behind your eyes
Damn the day, damn the night
Goddamn the losing light
There ain't no boat, there ain't no train
To take us back, the way we came
Ain't no shelter from this hard rain
The cure for the pain is the pain
The cure for the pain is the pain
It's not like we think it's gonna be
Not like the movies that you see
Ain't no soaring violins
Just machines an medicines
So bless these pills bless these sheets
Bless the food you can't eat
Bless the damned who walk these halls
And God have mercy on us all
There ain't no drug, there ain't no cure
To make it like it was before
Ain't no shelter from this hard rain
The cure for the pain is the pain
The cure for the pain is the pain"
Gretchen Peters "The Cure for the Pain"
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" This shirt is old and faded
all the color's washed away
I've had it now for more damn years
that I can count anyway
I wear it beneath my jacket
with the collar turned up high
so old I should replace it
but I'm not about to try
This shirt's got silver buttons
and a place upon the sleeve
where I use to set my heart up
right there where anyone could see
this shirt is the one I wore
to every boring high school dance
where the boys ignored the girls
and we all pretended to like the band
This shirt was a pillow for my head
on a train through Italy
this shirt was a blanket beneath my love
we made in Argeles
this shirt was lost for three whole days
in a town near Buffalo
till I found the locker key
in a downtown Trailways bus depot
This shirt was the one I lent you
and when you gave it back
it had a rip inside the sleeve
where you rolled your cigarettes
It was the place I put my heart
now look where you put a tear
I forgave your thoughtlessness
but not the boy who put it there
This shirt was the place your cat
decided to give birth to five
and we stayed up all night watching
and we wept when the last one died
this shirt is just an old faded piece
of cotton
shining like the memories
inside those silver buttons
And this shirt is a grand old relic
with a grand old history
I wear it now for Sunday chores
cleaning house and raking leaves
I wear it beneath my jacket
with the collar turned up high
so old I should replace it
but I'm not about to try"
Mary Chapin Carpenter "This Shirt"
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"See those fault lines laid out like landmines
It's hard to relax
A promise broken, the ground breaks open
Love falls through the cracks
And I have a few of my own
I got a few of my own fault lines
Running under my life
Running under my life
I'm alone here, I play the odds, dear
I go where I please
Down below, the man I know
Might not be me
And I got a few of my own
I got a few of my own fault lines
Running under my life
Running under my life
On the high-wire, above the wildfire
An old acrobat
On faulty cable, still he's able
Not to fall flat
And I got a few of my own
I got a few of my own fault lines
Running under my life
Running under my life"
Tom Petty "Fault Lines"
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"You are my home
wherever you go.
Anywhere you stand,
is my piece of land.
You are my home.
Your six one frame.
My address is your name.
High ceilings grand halls,
walls are just walls,
and you are my home.
You are my home
wherever you go.
Anywhere you stand,
is my piece of land.
You are my home.
The bering sea,
the barrier reef,
anywhere you breathe,
is where I believe,
I'm meant to be.
You are my home
wherever you go.
Anywhere you stand,
is my piece of land.
You are my home."
Amanda Shires "You Are My Home"
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"You are my home
wherever you go
Anywhere you stand
is my piece of land
You are my home
You're six one frame
my address is your name
high ceilings, grand halls
walls are just walls
and you are my home
You are my home
wherever you go
Anywhere you stand
is my piece of land
You are my home
The being sea
the barrier reef
anywhere you breathe
is where I believe
I'm meant to be
You are my home
wherever you go
Anywhere you stand
is my piece of land
You are my home"
Amanda Shires "You Are My Home"
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You gotta wake up every mornin’,
tip toe in the kitchen
cook me a great big T-bone steak
Serve it to me in bed go down the street and hustle
bring back all the money you make
You gotta rub my body with sweet scented oil
cool me with a ’lectric fan
Run down to the church fall down on your knees say
"Lord I wanna thank you for that man"
And I call that true love, true and sweet
That ain’t the kind of love I’m gettin’
but baby, that’s the kind of love I need
Wanna come home every evenin’ to a great big meal
of wine and roasted pheasant
Say to me "Shel this is Suzy, this is Kay, I brought ’em
both home to you for a present"
Cops bust in and find my stash, you gotta tell ’em
it belongs to you
And when you’re sittin’ in slam tell all the other
chickies when they get out
they can look me up too
And I call that true love, true and sweet
That ain’t the kind of love I’m gettin’
but baby, that’s the kind of love I need
Some guy accuses me of foolin’ with his wife
and threatens to tear me apart
Points a gun at me, I want you to jump in the middle
and take the bullet in your own heart
And as you’re lying on the floor and dyin’
I want you to look to me and say
"Shel I’m sorry I messed up the rug
just roll my body out of the way"
And I call that true love, true and sweet
That ain’t the kind of love I’m gettin’
but baby, that’s the kind of love I need
Movie people call you on the telephone
I want you to turn down the part’And when we’re ballin’ baby, ride my top
so I never, ever strain my heart
And I call that true love, true and sweet
that ain’t the kind of love I’m gettin’
but baby that’s the kind of love I need.
"I Call That True Love"
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show |
@cd318,
I hope you've heard "The Twins" version...from Live @ Benroyal Hall, from Brandi Carlile.
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..."she's my sister, and she floats like a bird in the canopy"
The Rosebuds "Loud Planes Fly Low" |
"Champagne hair in the afternoon
Now you speak with your eyes
No fun or fair that he’s chosen youth
But out of ash you will rise
You can be loved (chorus /4 times)
It’s what you take
Cause nothing ever goes
How you want in life
When beauty fades
She’ll be his ghost
So put your arms into mine
(chorus)
Words decay so I wanted to show you
Our broken mouths will fail us
When we try to say
You can be loved......"
Orenda Fink " You Can Be Loved"
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